{"id":449196,"date":"2025-09-25T00:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:52:21","slug":"drop-in-tonnes-of-freight-carried-on-eu-roads-by-0-7-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449196\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop in tonnes of freight carried on EU roads by 0.7% in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the volume of goods transported by road in the EU<\/a>, measured in tonnes, declined by 0.7% compared with 2023. However, since 2020, the number of tonnes carried grew at an average annual rate of 0.1%.<\/p>\n

The largest product group transported in terms of tonnes was \u2018metal ores, mining and quarrying products\u2019, accounting for 3.01 billion tonnes, or 23.0% of the EU total. This was followed by \u2018food products, beverages and tobacco\u2019 (1.59 billion tonnes; 12.2%), and \u2018other non-metallic mineral products\u2019 (1.56 billion tonnes; 11.9%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In terms of road freight transport<\/a> performance measured in tonne-kilometres<\/a> (tkm), total EU performance in 2024 was 0.7% higher than in 2023.<\/p>\n

The leading category of goods was \u2018food products, beverages and tobacco\u2019, accounting for 312.2 billion tkm, a 16.7% share of the EU total. This was followed by \u2018grouped goods: a mixture of types of goods transported together\u2019 (236.5 billion tkm; 12.7%) and \u2018agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing products\u2019 (207.6 billion tkm; 11.1%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: road_go_ta_tg<\/a><\/p>\n

Transport of dangerous goods in the EU<\/p>\n

Regarding the share of dangerous goods (for example flammable liquids, toxic substances and explosive substances) in total road transport performance, Finland recorded the highest shares at 8.4%, ahead of Belgium (6.4%) and Denmark (5.6%). Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia were the only countries with shares below 2.0% in both 2023 and 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Source datasets: road_go_ta_dg<\/a> and road_go_ta_tott<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the period 2020-2024, 15 EU countries registered positive average annual growth rate in the transport of dangerous goods. The highest positive rates were recorded in Bulgaria (+13.0% per year on average), Romania (+9.6%) and Lithuania (+8.1%). At the other end of the scale, the largest decreases over this period were registered in Portugal (-11.6% per year on average), Croatia (-11.3%), Cyprus (-11.2%) and Luxembourg (-10.8%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the volume of goods transported by road in the EU, measured in tonnes, declined by 0.7%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,151156,1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-449196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-transp","13":"tag-transport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115262203187960208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}