Freight Transport 2017

5.1 Transport of goods, performance by mode in EU 28, 1995-2014 (billion tkm)

Road Rail Inland Water- ways Pipe- lines Sea(1) Air Total
1995 1 289 388 122 115 930 2 2845, 948
1996 1 303 394 120 119 942 2 2879, 110
1997 1 352 411 128 119 969 2 2980, 161
1998 1 414 394 131 126 1 000 2 3068, 126
1999 1 461 385 129 125 1 029 2 3131, 013 used for section 5.3
2000 1 509 405 134 127 1 067 2 3244, 912 2 176
2001 1 553 388 133 134 1 083 2 3292, 283 2 207
2002 1 603 386 133 130 1 100 2 3353, 314 2 251
2003 1 608 394 124 132 1 119 2 3378, 221 2 257
2004 1 751 419 137 133 1 159 2 3601, 139 2 440
2005 1 795 416 139 138 1 178 2 3667, 082 2 487
2006 1 858 438 139 137 1 191 2 3764, 233 2 571
2007 1 925 452 145 128 1 174 2 3826, 497 2 650
2008 1 891 443 146 125 1 153 2 3760, 470 2 605
2009 1 700 364 131 122 1 035 2 3353, 069 2 316
2010 1 755 394 156 121 1 094 2 3522, 114 2 425
2011 1 744 422 142 118 1 111 2 3539, 859 2 426
2012 1 693 407 150 115 1 085 2 3451, 158 2 364
2013 1 719 406 153 112 1 082 2 3474, 050 2 390
2014 1 725 411 151 113 1 122 2 3524, 416 2 400
1995 -2014 33,9% 5,8% 23,5% -1,8% 20,6% 27,0% 23,8%
2013-2014 0,4% 1,1% -1,2% 1,0% 3,8% 0,0% 1,4%

Source: EC
Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-28 transport; estimates for air and for sea (1995-2004)
Road: national and international haulage by vehicles registered in the EU-28.
(1) The time series for maritime transport performance has been revised, for the period from 2005 to 2014, by replacing previous estimates on port-to port distances with more accurate measurements by Eurostat. The time series from 1995 to 2004 has been recalibrated by DG MOVE in line with the new Eurostat figures to avoid break in series. The revision of tkm figures mainly concerns the calculation of distance travelled and not the tonnages transported by sea.

5.2 Goods transport by mode in EU 28, 2014 (% of tkm)

Goods transport by mode in EU 28, 2014 (% of tkm)

Source: EC
Notes:
Air and Sea: only domestic and intra-EU-27 transport; provisional estimates
Road: national and international haulage by vehicles registered in the EU-28

5.3 Inland transport modal split in EU 28, 2000-2014 (% of tkm)

Road Rail Inland waterways Pipelines
2000 69,4 18,6 6,2 5,8
2001 70,3 17,6 6,0 6,1
2002 71,2 17,1 5,9 5,8
2003 71,2 17,5 5,5 5,8
2004 71,7 17,2 5,6 5,5
2005 72,2 16,7 5,6 5,5
2006 72,3 17,0 5,4 5,3
2007 72,6 17,1 5,5 4,8
2008 72,6 17,0 5,6 4,8
2009 73,4 15,7 5,6 5,3
2010 72,4 16,2 6,4 5,0
2011 71,9 17,4 5,9 4,9
2012 71,6 17,2 6,3 4,9
2013 71,9 17,0 6,4 4,7
2014 71,9 17,1 6,3 4,7
2000-2014 3,6 -8,1 2,1 -19,5

Source: EC
Notes:
Road: national and international haulage by vehicles registered in the EU-28

5.4 Inland transport modal split in EU 28, 2014 (% of tkm)

Inland transport modal split in EU 28, 2014 (% of tkm)

Source: EC
Notes:
Road: national and international haulage by vehicles registered in the EU-28

5.5 Performance of inland freight transport by mode in EU countries, 2014 (billion tkm)

Road (*) Railways Inland Waterways (**) Pipelines (Oil) (***)
EU-28 1725, 50 410, 80 150, 90 112, 90
BE 31,8 7,3 10,5 1,6
BG 27,9 3,4 5,1 0,6
CZ 54,1 14,6 0,0 2,1
DK 16,2 2,5 2,4
DE 310,1 112,6 59,1 17,5
EE 6,3 3,3
IE 9,8 0,1
EL 19,2 0,3 0,2
ES 195,8 10,8 9,0
FR 165,2 32,2 8,8 11,1
HR 9,4 2,1 0,7 1,1
IT 117,8 20,1 0,1 9,6
CY 0,5
LV 13,7 19,4 2,4
LT 28,1 14,3 0,0 0,6
LU 9,6 0,2 0,3
HU 37,5 10,2 1,8 2,8
MT 0,3
NL 70,9 6,2 49,3 5,8
AT 24,3 20,5 2,2 8,3
PL 250,9 50,1 0,1 22,1
PT 34,9 2,4 0,4
RO 35,1 12,3 11,8 1,0
SI 16,3 4,1
SK 31,4 8,8 0,9 4,5
FI 23,4 9,6 0,1
SE 42,0 21,3
UK 143,2 22,1 0,2 10,0

Source: EC
(*) National and international haulage by vehicles registered in the reporting country (including cross-trade and cabotage). Only haulage of heavy goods vehicles (usually > 3,5 tonnes load capacity)
(**) For FI only shipborne transport (i.e. no floating)
(***) Data are not harmonised and therefore not fully comparable; in most countries, only pipelines longer than 40km are included. DE: only crude oil (i.e. no refined petroleum products)

5.6 Registration of commercial vehicles in EU and selected countries, 2015-2016

Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) Up to 3,5 t
Country 2015 2016 Evolution 2015-2016
AT 32.852 35.906 9,3%
BE 63.856 70.849 11,0%
DK 4.875 4.552 -6,6%
HR 6.843 8.316 21,5%
CZ 17.272 19.236 11,4%
DK 32.456 36.624 12,8%
EE 3.897 4.353 11,7%
FI 11.522 13.678 18,7%
FR 377.741 408.545 8,2%
DE 237.922 258.119 8,5%
EL 5.652 5.623 -0,5%
HU 17.516 21.335 21,8%
IE 23.403 27.514 17,6%
IT 133.680 199.534 49,3%
LV 2.348 2.218 -5,5%
LT 2.369 2.791 17,8%
LU 3.949 4.593 16,3%
NL 57.376 70.025 22,0%
PL 50.307 56.926 13,2%
PT 30.858 34.862 13,0%
RO 11.356 14.372 26,6%
SK 7.289 7.459 2,3%
SI 6.639 7.738 16,6%
ES 154.795 172.191 11,2%
SE 44.799 51.647 15,3%
UK 371.123 374.889 1,0%
EU 28 1.712.695 1.913.895 11,7%
IS 1.269 1.624 28,0%
NO 33.235 36.002 8,3%
CH 33.526 33.250 -0,8%
Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles Over 3.5 t
2015 2016 Evolution 2015-2016
AT 7291 7992 9,6%
BE 9366 10738 14,6%
DK 0
HR 977 1325 35,6%
CZ 11386 11862 4,2%
DK 4753 5099 7,3%
EE 767 878 14,5%
FI 2670 3249 21,7%
FR 42780 48157 12,6%
DE 89723 92458 3,0%
EL 465 321 -31,0%
HU 5702 5513 -3,3%
IE 2250 3040 35,1%
IT 15329 21156 38,0%
LV 1255 1588 26,5%
LT 3602 6004 66,7%
LU 1152 1288 11,8%
NL 14080 15720 11,6%
PL 22430 26630 18,7%
PT 4041 4557 12,8%
RO 6125 8032 31,1%
SK 2608
SI 1907 2392 25,4%
ES 22568 24846 10,1%
SE 5456 6520 19,5%
UK 47890 24678 -48,5%
EU 28 326573 334043 2,3%
IS 220 318 44,5%
NO 5215 5988 14,8%
CH 4416 4483 1,5%

Source: ACEA