Maritime transport of goods and passengers 1997-2005

European Commission Eurostat

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Transport
Inland-waterway and sea transport
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 23
• Langue: English

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Statistics in focus

TRANSPORT

94/2007

Author Giuliano AMERINI

C o n t e n t s Highlights .................................. 1 Introduction ............................... 2 Seaborne goods handled in ports, by country and by type of cargo .......................................... 2 Seaborne goods: the “top 20” European ports ......................... 4 Seaborne transport of goods by origin/destination...................... 5 Seaborne passengers............... 6 Maritime traffic by type of vessel ......................................... 9

Manuscri pt completed on: 1  8.07.2007 Data extracted on: 7.05.2007 ISSN 19770316 Catalogue number: KSSF07094ENC © European Communities, 2007

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Figure 1: Gross weight of seaborne goods handled (inwards and outwards) in all ports in 2005 (in tonnes per inhabitant)

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In 2005, 3 718 million tonnes of goods were handled in EU-27 maritime ports (+4.2% compared to 2004). Of these, 63% were unloaded goods. Almost all Member States unloaded more than they loaded.

With 586 million tonnes, the United Kingdom had the highest share (16%) of the total EU-27 handling of goods in ports, followed by Italy (14%), the Netherlands (12%) and Spain (11%).

Some estimate of the relative importance of maritime ports in each of the EU- 27 countries is given by the indicator “tonnes of goods handled in maritime ports per inhabitant”. This varies from 34.6 in Estonia to 1.4 in Poland, the EU-27 average being 7.6 tonnes per EU-27 inhabitant (see Figure 1 above).

In most countries, liquid bulk goods (which include petroleum products) had in 2005 the highest share in total tonnes of cargo handled. At EU-27 level, liquid bulk represents 41% of the total cargo handled in ports, followed by dry bulk (26%) and large containers (16%).

Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg maintained their positions as the three largest ports in terms of both gross weight of goods and volume of containers handled.

In 2005, 60% of the seaborne transport of goods of the EU-27 concerned extra-EU-27 partner (origin/destination) ports. The international intra- EU-27 transport represented 28% and national transport 11%. However the situation varies widely among countries. The share of national seaborne transport of goods is very low (less than 2%) for Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Romania, Estonia, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Poland, and high for Greece (32%), the United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, and Portugal. 387 million persons passed through EU-25 ports in 2005 (-4.9% compared to 2004). Contrary to the handling of goods (2/3 unloaded, 1/3 loaded), no significant difference can be found between the numbers of passengers embarking and disembarking, due to the fact that most of the transport corresponds to the main national and intra-EU-27 ferry connections. The number of vessel calls at EU-27 main ports exceeded 2 million in 2005 (- 3.4% compared to 2004; however the growth rate is +1.4% in terms of gross tonnage of the vessels).