Trends in road freight transport 1999 - 2006

European Commission Eurostat

Description

Transport
Land transport (road, rail)
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Cargo
• Road transport

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 18
• Langue: English

Extrait

Statistics in focus

TRANSPORT

14/2008

Author Simo PASI

C o n t e n t s Main trends ................................ 1 General development ............... 2 National transport ..................... 2 International transport loaded and unloaded............................. 4 Cross-trade transport ............... 5 Cabotage transport................... 6

Manuscri pt completed on: 1  1.02.2008 Data extracted on: 12.11.2007 ISSN 19770316 Catalogue number: KSSF08014ENC © European Communities, 2008

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Main trends

Road freight transport reported in 2006 shows a very strong fourth quarter, particularly for national transport for the EU-27. This largely reflects the performance of the EU-15 Member States with an increase of around 3% in 2006 compared with 2005. Within the EU-15 total, the growth in national and international transport was partially offset by lower growth for cross-trade and a fall in cabotage. This is in strong contrast with the performance of the ten Member States that joined the EU in 2004 (Bulgaria and Romania are included in the figures for the first time in 2006) where an overall growth of 25% reflects rises of over 100% in cross-trade and cabotage, 23.7% in international transport and a much more modest 2.8% in national transport.

Over the period 1999-2006 a number of the EU-15 Member States reported strong rises in tonne-kilometres. These included Spain (mainly national and international transport) and Ireland (mainly national transport). Other countries recording major increases were Luxembourg, Sweden, Italy, Germany and Belgium. In contrast, both Denmark and the Netherlands recorded fall in total transport. For the ten Member States that joined the EU in 2004, the period since 2004 has shown strong growth for Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia (48%, 48% and 46% respectively) with international and cross-trade being the major factors. Slovenia (34%), Poland (25%) and Slovakia (20%) also grew quickly.

In 2006, national transport accounted for more than 90% of the total for the United Kingdom and Cyprus. International transport was more than 60% of the total for Romania. Cross-trade was more than 40% and cabotage nearly a quarter of the Luxembourg total.

Graph 1: Quarterly road freight transport, EU-15 for 2001-2003, EU-25 for 2004-2005, EU-27 for 2006 - million tkm

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National International loaded unloaded Cross-trade and cabotage EU-15 Total transport * IT:as 2006 data is not available, 2005 data have been used instead. Note: 2001-2002: EU-15 without EL; 2004-2005: EU-25 without MT; 2006: EU-27 without MT; CY: no cross-trade, no cabotage.