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EU more important trading partner for Ukraine than vice versa
Ukraine is a very small trading partner for the European Union (EU)
Partial recovery air transport sector in 2010
Air transport grew further in 2010.
Fire brigade employees; professional and voluntary, ranks, region 2000-2019
Fire brigade employees; professional and voluntary, ranks, education, region
Oil tankers dominate short sea shipping
Dutch ports handled a total of nearly 570 million tons of goods in 2014. Nearly half (48 percent) was carried by coastal shipping also referred to as short sea shipping. The rest of the goods were...
Inland vessels transported 368 million tonnes in 2017
In 2017, inland vessels transported over 368 million tonnes of goods over Dutch waterways.
Domestic mineral consumption
In the Netherlands, (non-metallic) minerals are predominantly used in the construction sector.
more goods entering seaports, larger ships
The volume of goods arriving in Dutch seaports rose by 24 percent between 2000 and 2013. Last year, 388 million tonnes of goods arrived by sea, mostly bulk and container goods. The number of ships...
Container transport increasingly important
The proportion of goods transported to the Netherlands by sea in containers has more than doubled over the past 15 years. Food products in particular are more often transported in containers.
Netherlands occupies prominent position in export of flowers and plants
Flowers and plants are not the most important export products, but the level of specialisation with respect to these products is high in the Netherlands.
Netherlands increasingly tied in with global trade
The Dutch economy has become more and more interwoven with global trade in the last thirty years. This means that it has become more vulnerable to declining international demand.
Petroleum products balance sheet; supply, consumption and stock 1946-2015
Production, imports, exports, bunkers, consumption for transformation and final consumption of refineries, petrochemical industry and wholesale
One in forty people in the Netherlands exposed to too high levels of fine particles
In 2006, one in forty people in the Netherlands lived in areas where the concentration of fine particles in the air was too high. High concentrations of fine particles can damage people’s health.
Volume of exports to Scotland relatively low
The international trade between the Netherlands and Scotland in 2015
Highest economic growth rates in Flevoland and Utrecht
According to provisional figures published by Statistics Netherlands, the 2005 economic growth rate in the provinces of Flevoland and Utrecht was considerably higher than in the rest of the country.
Largest trade surplus construction services with Asia
The largest trade surplus for Dutch construction services is with the Asian continent
Holland and Brabant most important for trade with UK
Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant account for nearly two-thirds of goods trade with the United Kingdom.