Short sea shipping freight annual growth rate
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3.1%
European Union · 2024
Short sea shipping freight annual growth rate in the European Union came in at 3.1% in 2024 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- EU short sea shipping increased by 3.1% in 2024 compared with 2023
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The total gross weight of goods transported as part of EU short sea shipping was estimated at more than 1.6 billion tonnes in 2024, an increase of 3.1% from the previous year.
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2024). Maritime transport statistics. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Maritime_transport_statistics_-_short_sea_shipping_of_goods. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229T
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Maritime transport statistics." 2024, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Maritime_transport_statistics_-_short_sea_shipping_of_goods. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229T.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Maritime transport statistics." 2024. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Maritime_transport_statistics_-_short_sea_shipping_of_goods. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229T.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2024short0d229t, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Maritime transport statistics}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229T}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Maritime\_transport\_statistics\_-\_short\_sea\_shipping\_of\_goods. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Maritime transport statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- EU short sea shipping increased by 3.1% in 2024 compared with 2023
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229T