The survey on transport in pipelines covers inland transport, international receipt and international dispatch as well as transit. It is conducted using voluntary reports by the pipeline operating companies. The rate of return constitutes 100% and the results are published annually.
The transport volume of 60.8 million tons in the reporting year
2010 was 1.0 million tons respectively 1.7% below the reference value
of the preceding year which is due both to a decline of 2.3% (2009:
Transport performance (i.e. the product of transport volume
and distance) showed a similar development with a total decline of 508
million ton kilometres (tkm) to 14 542 million tkm, a minus of 3.4% compared
to the year before. The transport performance of petroleum dropped by
4.2% to 7 000 million tkm (2009: