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Eurostat: sea carried 67% of EU freight performance
By tonne-kilometres, maritime transport accounted for 67% of EU freight performance. Road’s share was 25.7%.
Event / data period: 2024
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IllustrationSince 2014, sea fell 2.5 percentage points while road rose 3.3 points.
Shares measure cargo multiplied by distance, not absolute tonnage.
Data
Source-reported indicators
Numerical indicators for the scope and reference period defined by the source.
- Maritime freight share
- 67 percent of tonne-kilometres
- 2024 · Observed
- Road freight share
- 25.7 percent of tonne-kilometres
- 2024 · Observed
- Rail freight share
- 5.4 percent of tonne-kilometres
- 2024 · Observed
- Inland-waterway freight share
- 1.7 percent of tonne-kilometres
- 2024 · Observed
- Air freight share
- 0.2 percent of tonne-kilometres
- 2024 · Observed
Methodology
Modal shares are each mode’s proportion of tonne-kilometre performance across five modes, not cargo tonnage or vehicle counts.
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