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Less domestic road haulage in 2023
In 2023, Dutch lorries carried a total weight of 642 million tonnes of goods.
Wegvervoer; vervoerd gewicht naar land van laden en lossen
Wegvervoer; vervoerd gewicht in het beroeps- en eigen vervoer naar land van laden en lossen
Emissions to air by the Dutch economy; national accounts
emissions to air, climate change, greenhouse gases, CO2, ozone layer air pollution, acidification, environmental accounts,
More road haulage for fifth year in a row
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.
Half of transport GHG emissions are from aviation
In 2018, the volume of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by the Dutch transport sector amounted to 26 billion CO2 equivalents.
Less road haulage to and from the United Kingdom
In 2018, road hauliers carried 4.6 million tonnes of goods between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
More road and maritime transport in 2018
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...
More trips to and from the UK by Dutch lorries
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...
International road haulage up for first time in years
In 2017, Dutch road hauliers carried 666 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 1.5 percent over 2016.
Road haulage by foreign lorries up again
Road haulage to and from the Netherlands and by home country of haulier.
More lorry journeys with cleaner engines
Lorry journeys by engine emission standard (European emission standard for lorries)
More cross-border road transport carried out by CEECs
Foreign lorries carried over 40 million tonnes in goods across Dutch borders in 2015.
Dutch hauliers more active in domestic transport
Dutch road hauliers carried 2.5 percent more goods in 2016, mainly in the Netherlands.
Transport of goods in the Netherlands hits new record
The volume of goods transported in the Netherlands reached a new record last year.
United Kingdom fourth destination for Dutch hauliers
In 2015, Dutch lorries made more than 162 thousand trips to carry goods to the United Kingdom.
158 thousand lorries cross the European borders every day
On average, European hauliers made 158 thousand international road transport trips carrying loads across one or more European borders every day in 2014. Dutch transport companies accounted for more...
Dutch hauliers cover 470 million kilometres on Belgian roads
Altogether, Dutch hauliers covered 470 million km in Belgium last year. The introduction in 2016 of the kilometre levy on Belgian roads threatens to cost the Dutch road transport sector tens of...
goods transported via land and water cover less than 300 kilometres
Ninety percent of goods loaded on to road vehicles, inland vessels or trains in the Netherlands are subsequently transported across a distance of less than 300 kilometres. The shorter the road...
Fewer goods carried by Dutch hauliers
The amount of goods carried by Dutch hauliers in 2012 was substantially down from 2005. Eastern European countries (Poland in particular) are becoming increasingly important, but Dutch hauliers still...
France third largest market for international road transport
Dutch hauliers carried nearly 6 million tons of goods from the Netherlands to France in 2010, making France the third largest market for international road transport after Germany and Belgium....
More than 80 percent of international road transport to Belgium and Germany
Dutch international road transport mainly carries goods to regions just across the Dutch border. More than 80 percent of international road transport was loaded up or unloaded in Germany or Belgium...
More goods transported in foreign lorries
Foreign hauliers are becoming more important in Dutch road transport. From each 100 tons of goods loaded in the Netherlands, 6.4 tons were carried by foreign hauliers versus 5.5 tons in 2005.