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In the second quarter of this year, freight traffic on the Austrian rail network fell by -19.6%
River transport on the Danube fell by -2.2%
September 23, 2020
Explaining this data, the Director-General of Statistik Austria, Tobias Thomas, recalled that a total of 30% total transport services in Austria is due to two-thirds are road-going.
With regard to rail traffic, in the second quarter of 2020 the national traffic alone was 5.9 million tonnes (-13.8%), cross-border import traffic is 5.2 million tonnes (-24.5%), traffic 3.6 million tonnes (-16.5%) and transit rail traffic of 6.2 million tonnes (-22,0%). 63.5% of imported rail traffic 5.6 million tonnes (7.2 million tonnes) in the same second quarter of 2019), was carried out with Germany, Slovenia and Italy, for an overall drop of -22.3%. Of the total 6.2 million tonnes of railway freight in transit, 4.3 million millions of tonnes were transported from Germany Italy, Romania or Hungary and vice versa (-18.9%) and the pair of countries Germany-Hungary was the hardest hit with a 39.5% drop for 0.3 million tonnes transported followed by Germany-Italy (0.6 million tonnes, -15.3%) and from Germany-Romania (0.1 million tonnes, -13.7%).
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Explaining this data, the Director-General of Statistik Austria, Tobias Thomas, recalled that a total of 30% total transport services in Austria is due to two-thirds are road-going.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
