Orange with 6Medias, published on Saturday 30 April 2022 at 18:40
In the coming months, the trips of professional movers and boxes will become more expensive. High inflation, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, partly explains the rise in prices.
It will not be good to move in the next few months.
No more by renting a truck than by hiring the services of professional movers. The reason ? The inflation that has plagued France for several months, caused in particular by the Covid-19 pandemic and more recently by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. First and foremost there is the increase in fuel prices, which has pushed up the cost of travel for both rental cars and movers. For comparison, BFMTV states that the price of a move that would have cost €1,000 in 2021 is now worth €1,300. “There was a very strong demand for goods at the exit of the Covid, and prices rose for the first time. (…) We suffered a second simultaneous spike with the war in Ukraine,” said Caroline Leproust, agency manager at Les Gentlemen of the TV switch.
Inflation cannot be stopped
Another indispensable element for a move: boxes. Their production requires paper pulp, which has increased by 70% since the beginning of 2022, largely due to the increase in electricity prices, BFMTV says. “The cardboard book is the most obvious case of the increase. We’ve gone from €1 to €1.30. Up we have the standard cardboard, which was at €1.90 and is now €2. If it keeps going up, I’ll do that not.” Let’s see how we do it,” explained Steven Marchand from demenagerseul.com on the RTL microphone. According to forecasts by Henri Sterdyniak, economist and co-founder of Les Economistes Atterrés, general inflation could continue for two years given the resurgence of Covid-19 in China and the feared escalation from the Ukraine conflict.