Volume of goods transported by lorries in Q3 slides

A total of 66 million tonnes of goods were transported by lorries during the third quarter of 2019, which was nine percent less than in the corresponding period one year earlier, according to statistics on goods transport by road compiled by Statistics Finland.

The volume of transported soil materials decreased by 15 percent and the volume of transport of other goods by five per cent compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

In the third quarter of 2019, the total transport volume of lorries amounted to 6.3 billion tonne-kilometres, which was as much as in the corresponding period one year earlier. Ninety-two percent of the transport volume was transported in professional transport and eight percent in private transport.

The data for the statistics on goods transport by road are collected from lorry owners with a quarterly sample survey. Transported volume of goods refers to the weight of goods loaded on lorries in tonnes.

Tonne-kilometre describes the volume of transport and is obtained as a product of transported volume of goods and length of transport journey.