{"id":461572,"date":"2026-07-31T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/31\/trasporti-nellue-in-aumento-le-merci-su-strada-nel-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:44:31","slug":"transport-eu-road-freight-rose-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/31\/transport-eu-road-freight-rose-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport: EU road freight rose in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The volume of goods transported by road in the European Union has increased. According to Eurostat, the European Union\u2019s statistical office, in 2025, 1,886 billion tonnes-kilometres were moved by road<\/a>, up 0.9 per cent from the previous year. The total weight of goods transported was 13.3 billion tonnes, marking an increase of 1.8 per cent from 2024. <\/p>\n

The figures show that Poland recorded the highest volume of goods transported by road<\/strong>, at 381.0 billion tonne-kilometres, accounting for 20.2 per cent of the EU total. Germany<\/strong> came second with 277.4 billion (14.7 per cent of the EU total), followed by Spain<\/strong> (272.6 billion; 14.5 per cent), France<\/strong> (172.9 billion; 9.2 per cent), and Italy<\/strong> (161.7 billion; 8.6 per cent). Taken together, the figures for these five countries accounted for 67.1 per cent of the EU total.<\/p>\n

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Total annual freight transported by road in 2025. Source: Eurostat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Eurostat points out that in 2025 \u201cThe overall distribution of EU road freight transport activity, measured in tonne-kilometres, remained broadly stable.\u201d In particular, most goods were transported domestically<\/strong> (62.2 per cent), while international transport<\/strong> stood at 24.4 per cent. Cross-trade<\/strong> \u2013 international road transport between two different countries carried out by a motor vehicle registered in a third country \u2013 stood at 10.7 per cent, and cabotage \u2013 road transport carried out by a motor vehicle registered in one country travelling within the territory of another country \u2013 at 2.7 per cent. Compared with 2024, domestic transport increased by 2.2 per cent, whilst international transport rose by 0.3 per cent. Cross-trade and cabotage fell by 3.7 per cent and 3 per cent, respectively. <\/p>\n

As regards road freight flows between different EU countries, the largest volume of goods was transported between Germany and the Netherlands<\/strong>, totalling 86.9 million tonnes. In second place was the Germany\u2013Poland<\/strong> route (68.4 million tonnes), followed by Belgium\u2013France<\/strong> (55.9 million tonnes). Germany was the point of origin or destination for six of the top ten EU road freight flows.<\/p>\n

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The top 10 road freight flows between EU countries in 2025. Source: Eurostat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A total of 13.3 billion tonnes of goods were transported, representing an increase of 1.8 per cent from 2024. The highest volumes were recorded in Poland, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":461529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26261,26267,26180,31425,26105,25952,31613,26870,26099,33553,33394],"class_list":["post-461572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-poland-and","tag-road-transport-en","tag-spain-en","tag-transport-en","tag-trasporto-merci","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461573,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461572\/revisions\/461573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}