Press release No. 119 of 27 March 2023
- Transport volume down 6.4% in 2022 year on year
- Coal transports up 12.1% due to higher demand in the energy crisis
- Freight volume shipped to foreign ports down 12.1%
WIESBADEN - The quantity of goods carried by inland water transport in Germany decreased by 6.4% in 2022 from a year earlier. A total of 182 million tonnes of goods were transported on German inland waterways (2021: 195 million tonnes), according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was the lowest transport volume since German unification in 1990. Among the causes of the record low were declines in the production of important goods shipped and the low water levels in August 2022. The transport volume of 2022 fell short by 11.0% of the volume recorded for the pre-Covid year of 2019, when 205 million tonnes of goods had been carried by inland water transport.
Detailed data are available in tables 46321 in the GENESIS-Online database.