Strong recovery in rail freight transport performance in the first nine months of 2010.

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Justen (F). http://temis.documentation.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/document.xsp?id=Temis-0076737

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• Transport
• Chemin de fer
• Units of transportation measurement

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• Publié par: temis-developpement-durable
• Publié le: 01 février 2012
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Transport   Author: Franz JUSTEN

 

   

 

S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s 10/2012

  Strong recovery in rail freight transport performance in the first nine months of 2010 Rail freight transport in Europe

The total performance of rail freight transport indown at the end of 2010, with the last quarter the EU-27 was estimated at 389 billion tonne-registering a growth of +3% compared with the fourth kilometres in 2010, a rise of 7.9% compared withquarter of 2009. 2009. This increase reflects the recovery of rail In absolute terms, France recorded the largest freight transport following the economic crisis decrease (-2.2 billion tonne-kilometres between 2009 (which brought to an end a sustained period of and 2010). Nevertheless, this country recorded the growth over recent years. third highest rail transport performance in Europe, The recovery in transport performance between 2009 with 30 billion tonne-kilometres in 2010. Two other and 2010 could be observed in a large majority of the  countries reported absolute decreases of more than Member States: the main exception was Greece, with 0.5 billion tonne-kilometres over the same period, a decrease of 20% of the total transport performance. Latvia (-1.5) and the United Kingdom (-0.6). Looking at the development by quarter, the most  The share of international transport in the various significant changes were concentrated in the first nine countries is strongly linked to their geographical months of the year. The quarterly increases were position within Europe. For the EU-27 as a whole, the +9%, +15% and + 9% respectively, compared with share of international transport was around 37% in the same quarters of 2009. The upwards trend slowed  2010, remaining quite stable over recent years. Figure 1: Rail transport of goods by country in 2010 - in billion tkm DE PL FR SE AT IT UK LV CZ LT National RO tanretnIlanoi TR CH Transit FI Total HU ES SK EE NL* BE PT NO SI BG HR DK EL LU** IE LI 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 *NL: Only the total transport of the country is presented. The breakdown between national and transit transport is not available due to confidentiality. LU: 2009 data **

Source: Eurostat (online data code:rail_go_typeall)