Short sea shipping share of total maritime freight
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58.3%
European Union · 2024
Short sea shipping share of total maritime freight in the European Union stood at 58.3% 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
Short sea shipping made up 58.3% of the total sea transport of goods to and from the main EU ports in 2024, 1.9 percentage points more compared with 2023.
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- 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229V
- 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229V.
- 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229V.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2024short0d229v, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Maritime transport statistics}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229V}, 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D229V