Rail freight transport in Europe

European Commission Eurostat

Description

The fall in rail freight transport performance slowed down towards the end of 2009
Transport
Land transport (road, rail)
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Rail transport
• Cargo

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 28
• Langue: English

Extrait

Transport Author: YvesMAHIEU

S t a t i s t i c si nF o c u s 11/2011

The fall in rail freight transport performance slowed down towards the end of 2009 Rail freight transport in Europe The total performance of rail freight transport in corresponding quarters in 2008). The recovery is the EU27 was estimated at 366 billion tonne confirmed by the preliminary figures available for the kilometres in 2009, representing a reduction of first and second quarters of 2010, with increases of more than 17% compared to 2008. This fall +8% and +14% respectively compared to the reflects the impact of the economic crisis on rail corresponding quarters in 2009. freight transport, which had registered sustained In absolute terms, Germany registered the largest growth over recent years until the second quarter decrease (19.8 billion tonnekilometres between of 2008. Transit transport was particularly 2008 and 2009). Nevertheless, this country still affected (27% between 2008 and 2009), while the recorded by far the highest rail transport performance decline was less marked for national (15%) and in Europe, with 96 billion tonnekilometres in 2009. international (20%) transport. Two other countries reported absolute decreases of As a result of the crisis, the drop in transportmore than 8 billion tonnekilometres over the same performance between 2008 and 2009 was visible in period, namely Poland(8.6) and France (8.4). all Member States: the only exception was Estonia, The share of international transport observed in the maintaining its 2009 transport performance at the various countries is strongly linked to their same level as 2008 (+0.1%). Looking at the geographical position within Europe. For the EU27 development by quarter, the situation is significantly as a whole, the share of international transport was better for the last quarter of 2009 (4% compared to around 38% in 2009, remaining quite stable over the same quarter in 2008) than for the first two recent years. quarters of the year (25% each compared to the Figure 1: Rail transport of goods by country in 2009  in billion tkm DE PL FR UK LV IT AT National CZ LT International RO Transit CH TR Total FI HU ES SK BE EE NL NO BG SI HR PT DK LU IE LI 0 1020 30 40 50 60 70 80 90100 NL: The share between national, international and transit transport is not available because of the confidentiality clause. EL, SE: Data not available. Source: Eurostat (online data code:rail_go_typeall)