Search results

Total length of the inland waterway system of the Netherlands exceeds 6 thousand kilometres. Within the European Union (EU), the Netherlands takes up third place after Finland and Germany.

Dutch road hauliers carried 2.5 percent more goods in 2016, mainly in the Netherlands.

Road haulage to and from the Netherlands and by home country of haulier.

Foreign lorries carried over 40 million tonnes in goods across Dutch borders in 2015.

In 2018, Dutch lorries carried a total of 680 million tonnes of goods. This is 2.1 percent more than in the previous year. Both national and international transport to and from the Netherlands by...

In 2017, 917 million tonnes of goods were loaded onto inland vessels, lorries or trains in the Netherlands. Nearly one-quarter were transhipped in the Rotterdam port area. Over half of these...

In 2021, 42.6 million tonnes of goods were transported over Dutch railways. This is 6.5 percent up on the previous year.

East European lorries carry more and more goods to and from the Netherlands; between 2007 and 2011 their share increased from 8 to 12.5 percent.

Information on the Port of rotterdam

In 2019, Dutch lorries carried a total weight of 689 million tonnes in goods. This is 1.3 percent more than in 2018. Transport by Dutch road hauliers has shown an upward trend since 2015.

Pipelines are becoming a key form of transport.

In 2017, 199 million tonnes of goods were transported by road from and to the Netherlands. This is an increase of 4.3 percent on the previous year.

In 2017, Dutch road hauliers carried 666 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 1.5 percent over 2016.

In 2018, 1.71 billion tonnes of goods were transported to, from and within the Netherlands. This represents a year-on-year increase of 1.2 percent, entirely due to more freight traffic by road (1.6...

In 2021, inland vessels carried 369 million tonnes of goods. This is 5.8 percent more than in the previous year and also the heaviest weight ever carried over a year via inland waterways.

In 2017, European lorries drove in and out of the United Kingdom almost 3.5 million times. 237 thousand such journeys were made by Dutch lorries, an increase of 1.8 percent on 2016. This is reported...

CBS mapping goods flows

Goods are increasingly transferred to logistics hubs before onward transportation, often to or from the Port of Rotterdam.

In 2020, inland vessels carried 349 million tonnes of goods. This is 2.3 percent less than in the previous year.

Air passenger traffic quadrupled in Q2 year-on-year