Road goods transport by foreign lorries, 2014

Norwegian lorries transported 293.5 million tonnes of goods to, from and inside Norway in 2014. This is 8.3 per cent more than in 2013. The foreign lorries' share accounted for just 3.0 per cent of total domestic and international freight transport in 2014; a decrease of 0.8 percentage points from the previous year when foreign lorries transported a large volume of goods and had a high transport performance.

Decrease in transport performance by foreign lorries

The total transport performance for journeys to, from and inside Norway with Norwegian and foreign lorries amounted to 28.6 billion tonne kilometres in 2014. Of this, transport performance carried out by foreign lorries was 7.1 billion tonne kilometres; a decline of 21.1 per cent from 2013. Norwegian lorries accounted for 19.1 billion tonne kilometres of driving in Norway and 2.4 billion between Norway and abroad. This is an increase of 4.2 per cent in domestic freight transport for Norwegian lorries and a decline of 15.2 per cent overseas during 2013.

Swedish lorries transported the most

Swedish lorries carried a total of 2.7 million tonnes of goods on their Norwegian trips in 2014, while the Polish lorries took care of 1.4 million. Danish lorries followed with 1.2 million tonnes of goods. In 2014, Swedish lorries’ transport performance amounted to 1.2 billion tonne kilometres on journeys inside Norway and abroad, while the Polish lorries accounted for 1.7 billion tonne kilometres.

Less cross trade

Cross trade includes transportation of goods from one foreign country to another. Foreign lorries transported 15.7 per cent less goods to/from Norway and abroad than within the lorries’ own countries in 2014. A total of 34.7 per cent of the goods transported to and from Norway was cross trade. Foreign lorries’ transport performance in connection with cross trade amounted to 3.0 billion tonne kilometres in 2014; a decrease of 24.9 per cent since 2013. It should be noted that in 2013, foreign lorries carried a high volume of cargo and had a high transport performance. This means that the disparity between 2013 and 2014 will be relatively large.

More cabotage in Norway

Foreign lorries transported a total of 1.2 million tonnes of goods by cabotage transport in Norway in 2014. This means that 0.4 per cent of all goods were transported by Norwegian and foreign lorries in Norway. Danish lorries transported most goods in cabotage in Norway in 2014, with 324 200 tonnes. The figures of cabotage are relatively small in the big picture, and the figures vary somewhat between individual years. This indicates that there is some uncertainty about numbers.