Rail freight transport performance

RecordSTO-WZ8BH5P98E-XM7JNMDDSR-FK3Q5A

410 billiontonne-kilometres

European Union · 2018

Rail freight transport performance in the European Union was 410 billion tonne-kilometres in 2018 (Eurostat).

Original source
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).

Checked: the figure 410 billion tonne-kilometres is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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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

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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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Chain of custody
Record: STO-WZ8BH5P98E-XM7JNMDDSR-FK3Q5A T1 Official

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