HELSINKI: Annual volume of goods transported by lorries in domestic transport. Source: Goods Transport by Road 2014, Statistics Finland. Two per cent more goods measured by tonnes were transported by lorries in domestic and international transport in 2014 than in the previous year.
Tonne-kilometres, however, decreased by four per cent, according to Statistics Finland’s data derived from the statistics on goods transport by road. In 2014, lorries transported in total 274 million tonnes of goods in domestic transport, which was two per cent more than the year before. The total length of transport journeys driven was 1.8 billion kilometres, which was seven per cent down from 2013.
The share of licensed transport was 93 per cent of all tonne-kilometres, which was one percentage point less than in the year before. Examined by type of lorry, six million tonnes more were transported by lorries without trailer in 2014 than in 2013, while the volume of goods transported by semi-trailer combinations went down by two million tonnes. The tonne volume transported by full trailer combinations was at the same level in both years, that is, the volume of goods transported by lorries was in total four million tonnes bigger in 2014 than in the preceding year.
