LE TRANSPORT DE CONTENEURS PAR VOIE D’EAU EN EUROPE, APPROCHE STATISTIQUE

- 1 - Traffic & Modal share of IWT in European Container Transport Jean Marc Deplaix Professor at École Supérieure des Transports, Secretary, AFTM , I. WEST-EUROPEAN IWT TRAFFIC of CONTAINERS In 2000, carriage of containers had reached for the first time 3 millions TEUs over West-European waterways. In 2004, it topped 4 millions TEUs, and in 2007, 5 millions TEUs. West European IWT Container Traffic 5 164 467TOTAL TRAFFIC 5 000 0004 813 1264 697 2464 310 8234 000 0003 689 2133 494 6213 288 6903 054 8473 000 000 DELTA TRAFFIC 2 783 5002 726 1682 414 5002 257 8302 000 000 1 995 170 1 959 7631 920 2891 780 1801 526 440 RHINE TRAFFIC 1 294 9481 175 9311 017 2271 000 000873 296721 641 NON-RHINE FRENCH 569 266and GERMAN TRAFFIC 400 469269 253250 000151 951108 00001975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 A slight softening of container traffic growth, due to low waters and the recent economic recession, had taken place in 2002 and 2003. Since then, the growth trend continues, boosted by the growth of maritime traffic. However, dramatic congestion at the harbour terminals has, during some years, resulted in a loss of market share by IWT traffic, due to the damaging delays inflicted to river trade. TEU- 2 - Compared to early issues of this series, intra-harbour traffic is only counted once, as loadings, but this takes place in Rotterdam as well as Antwerp, at a comparable level, thus figures are similar to the early version ...