Maritime transport of goods and passengers 1997-2007

European Commission Eurostat

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

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• Ship transport
• Cargo

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English

Extrait

Transport   Author: Giuliano AMERINI

  

  S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s   6/2009

  Maritime transport of goods and passengers 1997-2007 EU ports handled about 4 billion tonnes of goods in 2007: nearly 8 tonnes per inhabitant. In 2007, the total weight of goods handled in In 2007, more than 60% of EU-27 seaborne goods EU-27 maritime ports is estimated at 3.9 billion transport concerned an extra-EU-27 partner port. tonnes (2.6% up compared with 2006 for EU-27 The international intra-EU-27 transport excluding Italy). Of these, nearly two thirds were represented less than 30% and national transport goods unloaded. Almost all Member States about 10%. However the situation varies widely unloaded more than they loaded. among countries. The share of national seaborne At 582 million tonnes, the United Kingdom had the transport of goods is very low (less than 3%) for a highest share (15%) of goods handled in EU-27 large group of countries (either relatively small or with ports, followed by Italy (14% in 2006), the relatively limited shorelines), and high for Greece Netherlands (13%) and Spain (11%). (32%), Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom. Some estimate of the relative importance of maritime The number of passengers who passed through ports in each of the EU-27 countries is given by the EU-27 ports in 2007 is estimated at 410 million indicator “tonnes of goods handled in maritime ports (2.0% up compared with 2006 for EU-27 excluding per inhabitant”. This varies from 33.5 in Estonia to 1.3 Italy). Unlike goods handling (2/3 unloaded, 1/3 in Poland, the EU-27 average (excluding Italy) being  loaded), there was no significant difference between 7.8 tonnes per inhabitant (see Figure 1 below).  the numbers of passengers embarking and In most countries in 2007, liquid bulk goods disembarking, due to the fact that most of this (which include petroleum products) was the transport activity corresponds to the main national and largest type of cargo handled in tonnage terms. At intra-EU-27 ferry connections. EU-27 level excluding Italy, liquid bulk represents  The number of vessel calls at EU-27 main ports 38% of the total cargo handled in ports, followed by dry bulk (26%) and containers (18%).  ( 4 e .3 xc % l   u c d o in m g p  I a t r a e li d a  t n  o p  2 o 0 rt 0 s 6 ) .     s H h o o w w e e v d e   r an i   n i   n te c r re m a s s  o e  f  of    Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg maintained their gross tonnage of the vessels, the ,  growth rate was  positions as the three largest ports in terms of both 6.8% This reflects the increasing size of vessels . gross weight of goods and volume of containers o handled. perating in EU-27 ports.   Figure 1: Gross weight of seaborne goods handled (inwards and outwards) in all ports in 2007 (in tonnes per inhabitant) 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 NO EE NL LV BE FI SE DK IS (1) EL MT IE UK ES CY IT (1) LT SI EU- HR PT FR DE BG RO PL CZ LU HU A T SK 27 (2) (1) Italy and Iceland: 2006 data. (2) EU-27 excluding Italy.