Strong recovery in rail freight transport performance in the first nine months of 2010 - Issue number 10/2012


Rail freight transport in Europe

The total performance of rail freight transport in the EU-27 was estimated at 389 billion tonne-kilometres in 2010, a rise of 7.9% compared with 2009. This increase reflects the recovery of rail freight transport following the economic crisis (which brought to an end a sustained period of growth over recent years.