Unitisation of freight transport in Europe, 2005

European Commission Eurostat

Description

Transport
Transport policy
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Cargo
• Combined transport

Informations

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

Extrait

Statistics in focus

TRANSPORT

20/2008

Author Simo PASI

C o n t e n t s Highlights .................................. 1 Goods traffic by intermodal transport units........................... 1 Share of unitisation in rail and road transport ........................... 3

Transport performance by type of transport ................................ 5

Traffic flows in the main German ports ............................ 5

Manuscri pt completed on: 2  8.02.2008 Data extracted on: 19.04.2007 ISSN 19770316 Catalogue number: KSSF08020ENC © European Communities, 2008

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Highlights

Data presented in this publication concern intermodal and unitised transport in Europe, performed by rail, road, sea and inland waterways (IWW). Intermodal transport is defined as the movement of goods (in one and the same loading unit or vehicle) by successive modes of transport without a handling of the goods themselves when changing modes, while unitised transport (i.e. cargo in containers or other mobile units) includes movement using only one mode. The main results for the year 2005 are summarised in this first part of this publication whereas more detail is given in the following sections: •The major part of unitised transport in the EU is performed on roads •Containerised road transport performance in the EU remains stable •The Netherlands leads in the share of containerisation on road transport •Germany’s rail and road transport performances of unitised cargo are more than double that of any other Member State •The rail share in unitisation is high on the North-South axis •Containers and swap bodies are by far the most important rail loading units •In several Member States, over 50% of the container traffic is accounted for by maritime transport. Goods traffic by intermodal transport units Figure 1: Intermodal Transport Units (ITUs) forwarded at EU-27 level*, by mode of transport, 2005

Road

Maritime

Rail **4.7

20,6

40,2

56,9

16,3

2,3

Large containers on the road

Other containers on the road

40 feet containers on the sea

20 feet containers on the sea

Other containers on the sea

Total

0 20 40 60 80 million ITUs * EU27 countries except: BG, DK, IE, FR, HU, MT, NL, RO, UK for rail and road transport. Maritime transport is overestimated. ** DE, EL: 2004 data Note: for inland waterways data not available Road, with 77.5 million ITUs carried in 2005, is the most important transport mode in unitised transport in Europe. Another large share of traffic is taken by maritime transport with 58.8 million ITUs while rail is considerably less with 4.7 million ITUs (Figure 1). Hence, for each ITU carried by rail there are approximately 12 ITUs carried by sea and 16 ITUs by road.