Rail freight transport performance
RecordSTO-WZ8BH5P98E-XM7JNMDDSR-FK3Q5A
European Union · 2018
Rail freight transport performance in the European Union was 410 billion tonne-kilometres in 2018 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- EU rail freight transport performance decreased in 2025
- Retrieved
- 18 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Since 2018 there has been a steady decrease in rail freight transport performance where it peaked at 410 billion tonne-kilometres (tkm).
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2018). Railway freight transport statistics. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Railway_freight_transport_statistics. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZ8BH5P98EXM7JNMDDSRFK3Q5A
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Railway freight transport statistics." 2018, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Railway_freight_transport_statistics. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZ8BH5P98EXM7JNMDDSRFK3Q5A.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Railway freight transport statistics." 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Railway_freight_transport_statistics. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZ8BH5P98EXM7JNMDDSRFK3Q5A.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2018railfk3q5a, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Railway freight transport statistics}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZ8BH5P98EXM7JNMDDSRFK3Q5A}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Railway\_freight\_transport\_statistics. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Railway freight transport statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- EU rail freight transport performance decreased in 2025
- Retrieved
- 18 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_WZ8BH5P98EXM7JNMDDSRFK3Q5A