Leitl: Export Year 2011 Started in a Fulminant Way

People ♦ Published: April 9, 2011; 13:58 ♦ (Vindobona)

Exports increased in January by 26%; the target for the full year is to achieve the pre-crisis year’s record export volume of € 117bn.

Leitl: Export Year 2011 Started in a Fulminant Way / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Biberbaer [CC BY-SA 3.0]

"The export year 2011 started extremely well with an increase in exports of 26.3% in January", commented Economic Chamber President Christoph Leitl commented, pleased with Statistics Austria’s trade figures published yesterday for the month of January 2011. "I am therefore sure that Austria's export enterprises will achieve this year again the 2008 record export volume of € 117bn…