France inbound rail freight tonnage: Île-de-France
France inbound rail freight tonnage: Île-de-France stood at 8.52 million tonnes 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French regions | |||||||||||
| Île-de-France | 8.52 | 7.71 | 8.29 | 9.68 | 8.33 | 8.62 | 9.42 | 9.01 | 9.75 | 8.98 | |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 0.58 | 0.47 | 0.56 | 1.11 | 0.83 | 1.2 | 0.61 | 0.61 | 0.97 | 1.01 |
Understanding france inbound rail freight tonnage: Île-de-France
Aggregate rail freight tonnage whose precise regional loading point inside the domestic territory is unrecorded, directed toward the capital region's destination network, measures incoming cargo volume. Unlike distance-weighted performance metrics, this series counts the physical mass in million tonnes of arrivals without accounting for haul length. Shipments with fully identified origins are excluded, separating unallocated flows from specific regional inbound tallies.
Year-on-year comparisons are prone to distortion from administrative improvements in freight tracking that shift unassigned tonnage into named regions. Revisions can be pronounced when retroactive data auditing resolves missing origin documentation. Researchers should avoid using this unallocated arrival series to measure regional economic demand, as the true geographic source of the goods remains unknown.
Frequently asked questions
- What does this series measure for the capital region?
- It measures the physical weight in millions of tonnes of inbound rail freight whose specific origin region is not specified.
- Why is tonnage used instead of tonne-kilometres here?
- This row tracks absolute physical mass at the destination point, omitting distance calculations.
- How do tracking improvements affect historical comparisons?
- Better data collection over time can reduce unallocated tonnage, causing artificial downward shifts in this residual series.