Almost 100 million tonnes of rail freight in Austria in 2014

Domestic railway operators carried more than 90 per cent of the cargo volume; domestic transport amounted to around one third of the volume

According to Statistics Austria, in 2014 a total of 98.3 million tonnes of freight was transported on Austria’s railway network by all domestic and foreign railway operation companies, up 2.4 per cent on 2013. The domestic transport performance totalled 20.5 billion tonne-kilometres (tkm) in the reporting period, meaning a 6.1 per cent-increase year-on-year.

Broken down by modes of transport, inland transport accounted for 29.9 per cent (29.4 million tonnes), hence the largest part of the transport volume. International goods receipt accounted for 27.3 per cent (26.9 million tonnes), international goods dispatch for 17.3 per cent (17.0 million tonnes) and transit for about a quarter (25.4 per cent) or 25 million tonnes.

At 6.2 billion tkm transit accounted for the main part (30.2%) of the total transport performance. International goods receipt accounted for 5.7 billion tkm (27.8%), für inland transport accounted for 4.7 billion tkm (23%) and international goods dispatch for 3.9 billion tkm (19%).

In 2014 national railway operators transported about 91 million tonnes (92.6%) of the total tonnage, accounting for 19.2 billion tkm (93.9%) of the total transport performance. Foreign railway operators carried 7.3 million tonnes (7.4 per cent of the transport volume) and performed 1.2 billion tkm (6.1 of the total transport performance), exclusively in transit.

40.8 per cent or 37.2 million tonnes of the goods carried by national rail transport companies in the reporting year are counted among „vehicles, machinery and other goods“, followed by 11.2 million tonnes of „ores and metal waste“ (12.3%) and „agricultural and forestry products“, accounting for 10 million tonnes or 10.9 per cent. Together these three categories accounted for 58.4 million tonnes or 64 per cent of the transport volume in 2014. About 10.2 million tonnes or 11.3 per cent were declared as dangerous goods, of which 5.7 million tonnes, more than half (55.3%) were classified „flammable liquids“.

Of 17.7 million tonnes carried by domestic enterprises in transit, 3.5 million tonnes of goods were loaded in Germany and unloaded in Italy. 2.6 million tonnes were transported in the opposite direction, together 34.5 per cent of transit tonnage carried between these two countries. In 2014 the Germany-Hungary and Hungary-Germany trades together accounted for 3.3 million tonnes, representing a share of 18.8 per cent.

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