Rail freight transport worldwide 2022

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 19, 2024

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* (in millions of tonne-kilometers)

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May 2023

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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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