International transport dominates EU waterway freight share

Freight transport on European Union inland waterways reached 118.0 billion tonne-kilometres in 2025, marking a three per cent decrease equivalent to minus 3.7 billion tonne-kilometres compared with 2024, according to Eurostat. Between 2015 and 2017, freight transport across the bloc’s inland waterways remained steady at roughly 145 to 146 billion tonne-kilometres. Activity dropped sharply in […]