Ro-Ro units short sea shipping freight volume
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275 milliontonnes
European Union · 2024
Ro-Ro units short sea shipping freight volume in the European Union totalled 275 million tonnes in 2024 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Liquid bulk remained the dominant type of cargo in EU short sea shipping
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Liquid bulk was followed by dry bulk at 335 million tonnes (20.3%), containers at 294 million tonnes (17.9%) and roll on - roll off (Ro-Ro) units at 275 million tonnes (16.7%).
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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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AC
- 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AC.
- 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AC.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2024units0d22ac, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Maritime transport statistics}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AC}, 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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- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Maritime transport statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
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- Locator
- Liquid bulk remained the dominant type of cargo in EU short sea shipping
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
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Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AC