France regional rail freight tonnage: Occitanie
France regional rail freight tonnage: Occitanie stood at 5.48 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 | |||||||||||
| Occitanie | 5.48 | 4.98 | 4.52 | 4.91 | 4.52 | 3.77 | 2.77 | 4.06 | 4.55 | 3.65 | |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 5.5 | 5.59 | 5.27 | 6.36 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 8.23 | 7.44 | 7.58 |
Understanding france regional rail freight tonnage: Occitanie
Cargo weight loaded onto rail freight wagons within the specified administrative perimeter forms the core of this metric, expressed in million tonnes. It counts only shipments physically departing from stations or private sidings situated inside the designated regional boundaries, regardless of their final destination across domestic or international networks. Empty railcars, locomotive weight, and intermodal unit tare weights are systematically excluded from the aggregate figure. Unlike sibling rows that record distance-weighted transport performance or shipments originating abroad, this series isolates the absolute physical mass generated locally by rail operators.
Annual aggregation smooths short-term monthly operational fluctuations, making year-on-year comparisons the appropriate method for evaluating structural shifts in industrial cargo volumes. Early estimates are subject to periodic administrative revisions as railway operators finalize annual freight waybill reconciliations and correct geographic attribution errors. Analysts must avoid comparing raw tonnage directly with tonne-kilometre metrics, as heavy commodities hauled over very short local distances can generate high tonnage outputs while registering low transport performance totals.
Frequently asked questions
- What exact weight is included in this regional rail freight tonnage measure?
- The metric includes the gross mass of goods loaded onto freight trains within the specified region, excluding the tare weight of containers and wagons.
- Are transiting cargo shipments counted in this territorial origin series?
- No, transiting freight that merely passes through the region without being loaded onto the rail network locally is excluded.
- Why might this tonnage series diverge from regional tonne-kilometre figures?
- Tonnage counts the sheer weight of loaded goods at dispatch, whereas tonne-kilometres also factor in the precise distance those shipments travel across the rail grid.