As of 2022, the United States was the country that transported a significant amount of freight. At over 2.2 trillion tonne-kilometers of cargo, the country dwarfed all others. Germany came second, with approximately 123 billion tonne-kilometers. That year, Turkey handled around 15.8 billion tonne-kilometers loads.
Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022*
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Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States
Survey time period
2022
Supplementary notes
*The figure consist of the sum of only 3 quarters.
** Tonne-kilometer: unit of measure corresponding to the transport of one tonne of goods (including the packaging and tare of intermodal transport units) by a means of transport (road, rail, air, sea, inland waterways, gas pipeline/oil pipeline, etc.) over a distance of one kilometer. Only the distance travelled on the national territory of the reporting country is taken into account for national, international and transit transport (Eurostat definition).
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ITF. (May 24, 2023). Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022* (in millions of tonne-kilometers) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/
ITF. "Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022* (in millions of tonne-kilometers)." Chart. May 24, 2023. Statista. Accessed August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/
ITF. (2023). Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022* (in millions of tonne-kilometers). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/
ITF. "Volume of Goods Transported by Rail within Various Countries of The World in 2022* (in Millions of Tonne-kilometers)." Statista, Statista Inc., 24 May 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/
ITF, Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022* (in millions of tonne-kilometers) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/ (last visited August 25, 2024)
Volume of goods transported by rail within various countries of the world in 2022* (in millions of tonne-kilometers) [Graph], ITF, May 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/766351/transport-volume-rail-freight-world/