Motor fuels for transport;delivery weight, volume, 1946-Aug 2016

Motor fuels for transport;delivery weight, volume, 1946-Aug 2016

Type of delivery Periods Motor fuels for transport petajoule Total transport (PJ)
Deliveries for final consumption 2015 September* 36.8
Deliveries for final consumption 2015 October* 39.3
Deliveries for final consumption 2015 November* 37.8
Deliveries for final consumption 2015 December* 38.6
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 January* 35.6
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 February* 35.8
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 March* 39.5
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 April* 37.3
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 May* 37.3
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 June* 37.5
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 July* 35.7
Deliveries for final consumption 2016 August* 36.6
Deliveries for bunkers 2015 September* 54.9
Deliveries for bunkers 2015 October* 53.2
Deliveries for bunkers 2015 November* 52.0
Deliveries for bunkers 2015 December* 67.0
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 January* 52.1
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 February* 50.8
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 March* 58.4
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 April* 56.1
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 May* 58.7
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 June* 63.4
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 July* 63.0
Deliveries for bunkers 2016 August* 65.8
Source: CBS.
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This table provides information on deliveries of motor fuels for transport in the Netherlands. Deliveries are either for consumption in the Netherlands and international road transport, which is called final consumption, or for international sea and air transport, which is traditionally called bunkering.

The table gives figure for all modes of transport. Agricultural and mobile equipment is excluded. Figures for relevant motor fuels are given by transport category. Pure biofuels for road transport are not included in this table. Blended biofuels are included in the deliveries of motor gasoline and transport diesel. Biofuels are products produced from agricultural crops.

Deliveries of motor fuels are expressed by energy (petajoules) and physical units (million kg or million kWh). Deliveries for road transport are also published in volume (million litres). This table includes figures (in petajoules) on total transport, total road transport, total water transport, total air transport and total rail transport. This is not possible for physical units, due to different units (e.g. kg and kWh) are not countable.

Data available from:
From 1946 up to and including August 2016

Status of the figures:
All figures from 1946 to December 2013 are definite.
Figures from January 2014 onwards are provisional.

Changes as of 2 December 2016
None, this table has been stopped. For more information see section 3.

When will new figures be published?
Not applicable.

Description topics

Motor fuels for transport petajoule
Amounts of substances, expressed in petajoules, combusted for the propulsion of vehicles transporting persons or goods, including motor gasoline, transport diesel, kerosene, natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. Pure biofuels for road transport are not included in this table. Blended biofuels are included in the deliveries of motor gasoline and transport diesel.
A joule is a unit of energy equivalent to 0.24 calories. A Petajoule (PJ) equals 1,000,000,000,000,000 joules (10 to the power of 15) and is equivalent to 31.6 million cubic metres of natural gas or 278 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Total transport
All passenger and freight transport by rail, road, water and air.

Excludes transport on own premises, fishing, agriculture and mobile equipment.