France regional rail freight tonnage: Nouvelle-Aquitaine
France regional rail freight tonnage: Nouvelle-Aquitaine stood at 4.55 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 | |||||||||||
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 4.55 | 4.15 | 3.81 | 4.69 | 6.22 | 4.29 | 4.63 | 3.78 | 4.11 | 4.76 | |
| Occitanie | 5.48 | 4.98 | 4.52 | 4.91 | 4.52 | 3.77 | 2.77 | 4.06 | 4.55 | 3.65 |
Understanding france regional rail freight tonnage: Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Gross mass of freight dispatched from rail loading facilities situated within the specified administrative region, measured in million tonnes. This metric tallies the total physical weight of all goods loaded onto trains departing from local sidings and freight yards, leaving out shipments originating in other territories or arriving from abroad. It serves to isolate the local rail freight generation capacity from broader national movements, capturing the output of regional industrial and primary sectors. The scope encompasses every commodity type loaded onto the rail network inside the designated perimeter.
Reading this dataset requires understanding that regional infrastructure bottlenecks, local industrial restructuring, and shifts in corporate logistics strategies can cause substantial year-to-year variation. Analysts should rely on annual comparisons rather than short-term sequences to avoid misinterpreting temporary operational disruptions as permanent trends. Revisions to early estimates usually stem from delayed data transmissions by regional transport operators or corrected weight audits. Users must avoid comparing these regional tonnage totals with national tonne-kilometre figures, as regional weights do not account for the varying distances shipments travel after leaving the territory.
Frequently asked questions
- What does this regional indicator actually count in terms of transport activity?
- It counts the physical weight of freight loaded onto rail wagons at origins located strictly within the specified regional boundaries.
- Why are year-on-year comparisons preferred over sequential checks for this series?
- Year-on-year comparisons neutralize seasonal harvesting schedules and routine annual plant maintenance that distort single-period evaluations.
- How do revisions usually affect the reported regional tonnage levels?
- Revisions occur when transport operators submit late loading declarations or correct preliminary cargo weight estimates for the region.