Short sea shipping container transport annual growth rate

In terms of number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), short sea shipping of containers in the main EU ports reached a peak in 2024, at 36.4 million TEUs, after an increase by 8.9% 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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AM

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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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AM.

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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_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AM.

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@misc{eurostat2024short0d22am, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Maritime transport statistics}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AM}, 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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Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D22AM.