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Road goods transport by Norwegian lorries, Q3 2012

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Slight decrease in road goods transport

Transport by Norwegian lorries fell slightly in the third quarter of 2012 compared with the same quarter in 2011. They transported 60.9 million tonnes of goods on domestic tours, 3.9 per cent less than the third quarter of 2011.

Transport performance by Norwegian lorriesPublished 19 February 2013
3rd quarter 2012Change in per cent
Transport performance (mill. tonne-kms)Share3rd quarter 2011 - 3rd quarter 20123rd quarter 2007 - 3rd quarter 2012
National and international transport, total4 951.6100.0-0.3-1.1
National transport for hire or reward and own account4 240.985.6-0.511.3
National transport for hire or reward3 327.767.29.616.9
National transport for own account913.118.4-25.6-5.1
International transport for hire or reward and own account710.714.41.0-40.6

Source: Statistics Norway

Norwegian lorries transported 1.3 million tonnes of goods on foreign trips, an increase of 2.7 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2011.

The total transport performance amounted to almost 5 billion tonne kilometres in the third quarter of this year, of which 4.2 billion tonne kilometres were domestic and 0.7 billion tonne kilometres were overseas.

Less empty running overseas, increase domestic

Norwegian lorries covered 450 million kilometres on domestic journeys and almost 48 million kilometres abroad in the third quarter of 2012. This is respectively 2.3 and 2.2 per cent more, compared with the same quarter last year. While the share of kilometres with no load domestically increased in third quarter compared with the same period in 2011 it went down for tours overseas, to a low 12 per cent.

Increase in average transport distance per tonne domestic

The average transport distance per tonne for domestic transport increased from 67.3 to 69.7 kilometres per tonne, compared with third quarter of 2011. The international transport went down from 556.8 to 547.7 kilometres per tonne.