* ACT - Two billion tonnes of freight over a distance of 17 billion kilometres in the 12 months
-- The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the results of a new study on road freight movements in Australia... The report showed that articulated and rigid trucks in Australia moved over two billion tonnes of freight over a distance of 17 billion kilometres in the 12 months to October 2014... In the same timeframe, the road transport network in Australia accounted for an estimated total of 195,619 million tonne-kilometres... Of the total tonne-kilometres travelled on roads by articulated and rigid trucks in Australia, 25.9 per cent originated in New South Wales, followed by Queensland (22.8 per cent), Victoria (20.2 per cent) and Western Australia (18.2 per cent)... Over 95 per cent of the total tonnes carried by road were carried within the same state of origin and destination, according to Amanda Clark from the ABS. For all states and territories of origin, less than 11.5 per cent of the total tonnes carried were for interstate freight movements... General freight was the major commodity moved by road in Australia, accounting for 22.4 per cent of all tonne-kilometres travelled. Food (animal or human consumption) was the next highest contributor with 15.6 per cent, followed by sand, stone and gravel with 9.5 per cent... According to the ABS, the study – which was funded by government transport agencies – is providing industry with the first large-scale snapshot of road freight movements since its last freight movement survey in 2002.
It provides estimates of freight moved by road for the period 1 November 2013 to 31 October 2014...
Canberra, ACT, Australia - Prime Move Magazine - 5th, November 2015Labels: trucking markets worldwide
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