Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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Last year, 102.6 million tonnes of goods (-2.6%) were transported on the Austrian rail network
44% of transit traffic was transport between Germany and Italy
May 29, 2020
Last year the productivity of rail transport Austria was equal to 21.7 billion tonnes-kilometers (-1.2%), of which 4.6 billion tonnes-km in the (-1.6%), 7.5 billion tons of ton-km in traffic transit (-1.6%), 5.8 billion tons-km in traffic international import (up 1.8%) and 4.0 billion tons-km in the international export traffic (-4.0%).
In 2019, the average distance travelled by goods on the network Austrian railway was 211.9 kilometers. 55.1% total volume of goods was transported over distances 300 kilometres (in 2018 the share was 53.3%), while the 38.4% was transported over distances of more than 500 kilometres (36.5% in 2018).
Last year, Austria's only railway companies 91.4 million tonnes of goods, or 89.1% of the total total productivity, with a productivity of 19.9 billion tonn-km (91.4%).
With regard to intermodal traffic, in 2019 on the tracks almost 1.8 million containers were transported, Swap body and semi-trailers for a total of 35.5 million tonnes unaccompanied transport, of which almost a fifth made up of empty containers. In terms of 20' container (teu), the volume 2.4 million full teu and almost 0.5 million empty teu.
Finally, the Federal Statistical Office has announced that in 2019, 44% of transit traffic was between Germany and Italy. In particular, 22.1 million tonnes of goods in transit have been loaded or unloaded Germany, of which 7.7 million tonnes of cargo were uploaded to Germany and downloaded in Italy and 5.8 million tonnes were transported from Italy to Germany.
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