After seven quarters of growth, in the first three months of this year the volume of goods transported by rail in Italy is Diminished of the -2,5% being piled to 25,16 million tons compared with 25.81 million tonnes in the period January-March of 2022. This was announced today by Eurostat releasing data on the total of loads carried by trains in Europe in the first quarter of 2023, a period in which most European nations have Rail freight traffic decreased, starting from Germany where, with 86.85 million tonnes, it is the largest quantity of cargo has been transported and where the decrease was -4.1%. Among other European nations for Traffic volume, loads also decreased transported by rail in Poland (56.54 million tonnes, -4.6%), Austria (23.25 million tonnes, -9.7%), in Czech Republic (21.92 million tons, -7.3%), in France (18,60 million tons, -27.1%), Switzerland (13,59 million tons, - 7.8%), in Romania (12,30 million tons, - 5.1%) and in Hungary (11,34 million tons, -7.4%), while in Netherlands, tenth European nation for consistency of the volume of goods transported by trains in the first quarter of 2023, traffic is increased of +2.5% going up to 11,08 million tons.

In terms of rail transport productivity, in the First three months of this year, rail freight traffic is state of 5.87 billion ton-kilometers, with a decrease -6.3% on the same period of 2022.