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More goods on Norwegian lorries
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Road goods transport by Norwegian lorries, Q4 2006

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More goods on Norwegian lorries

Norwegian lorries carried approximately 245 million tonnes of goods in Norway last year, an increase of 4.5 million tonnes from the previous year. The transport performance remained steady.

International transports by Norwegian lorries, 1st - 4th quarter 2006

Tonnage carried, national transports, 1993-2006

The transport performance of Norwegian lorries on domestic roads was 15.3 billion tonne-kilometres in 2006. This is a decrease of 32 million tonne-kilometres from 2005.

The total distance covered by Norwegian lorries on domestic roads was 1.6 billion kilometres, of which 1.2 billion kilometres were by loaded lorries. This means that the rate of empty kilometres was 26.6. In 2005, 25.8 per cent of the covered distance was by empty lorries.

More transport of gravel, sand, cement etc.

The rise in the rate of empty kilometres may be attributed to the type of goods transported. Gravel, sand, stone, cement and other compounds are by far the largest commodity group. In 2006, transport of such goods accounted for 55 per cent of transport by lorries compared with 51 per cent in 2005. This type of transport naturally has a 50 per cent rate of empty kilometres.

Regardless of type of commodity, every tonne of goods in national transport was transported 62.5 kilometres in 2006. This is 1.3 kilometres shorter than in 2005.

International transport

Norwegian lorries carried 6 million tonnes of goods abroad in 2006. A total of 227.6 million kilometres were covered, of which 195.3 million kilometres were by loaded lorries. The transport performance amounted to 4 billon tonne-kilometres. International transport had a rate of empty kilometres of 14.2 and every tonne of goods was transported 669 kilometres on average.

New method for calculating international transport

The statistics on international transport by Norwegian lorries have been compiled using a new method. Statistics Norway's external trade statistics includes data on the total quantity of goods transported in and out of Norway by Norwegian lorries. In addition comes the amount of goods that are loaded and unloaded abroad.

Because the sample of lorries participating in the survey may be somewhat biased, the figures for transport abroad have been too low. As of the first quarter of 2006, these figures have been brought in line with the figures from the external trade statistics.

As a result, figures for international transport by Norwegian lorries before and after the first quarter of 2006 are not comparable. Figures referring to the first quarter of 2006 published here will thus differ from those published on 27 of September 2006.

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