France annual foreign rail freight tonne-km: Italy
France annual foreign rail freight tonne-km: Italy stood at 994.46 million tonne-km in 2025, according to SDES – Service des données et études statistiques (Ministère de la Transition écologique). It is one of the indicators in the Freight transport (annual) table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 2016 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Freight transport (annual) table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign countries | |||||||||||
| Italy | 994.46 | 863.94 | 939.74 | 1,361.95 | 1,321.09 | 1,097.68 | 1,240.92 | 1,157.61 | 1,149.11 | 2,271.94 | |
| Luxembourg | 1,350.02 | 1,202.37 | 1,058.23 | 1,288.81 | 1,268.99 | 875.37 | 790.76 | 696.24 | 798.43 | 700.42 |
Understanding france annual foreign rail freight tonne-km: Italy
Calculating transport performance for cross-border railway freight shipments destined exclusively for Italy, this metric multiplies the mass of the consignment by the distance traversed on tracks inside and outside the national territory. Unlike domestic regional breakdowns, this series specifically captures long-haul international corridors crossing alpine or southeastern border checkpoints. The scope includes only loaded freight wagons moving across international boundaries under commercial rail tariffs, completely omitting empty rolling stock, passenger trains, and shipments terminating within domestic administrative regions.
Interpreting this dataset requires accounting for potential infrastructure bottlenecks along mountain crossings and shifts in bilateral trade agreements between the two nations. Analysts should compare annual figures rather than sequential periods to bypass seasonal maintenance closures on mountain rail routes. Reclassifications in corridor accounting or changes in interoperability standards across borders can induce structural breaks, meaning historical comparisons must be handled with caution when evaluating long-term corridor dynamics.
Frequently asked questions
- What exact distance is included in this tonne-kilometre calculation for Italy?
- The metric incorporates both the domestic segment within the origin territory and the portion of the journey completed on foreign tracks up to the final destination in Italy.
- Are empty freight cars factored into this international rail measure?
- No, empty rolling stock is entirely excluded from tonne-kilometre calculations to maintain a pure focus on commercial cargo weight and movement.
- Why might this series diverge from broader European freight statistics?
- Discrepancies often arise from differing national treatments of multimodal transfers and the precise boundary points used to calculate cross-border track distances.