In rail freight transport, a total of 102.6 million tonnes of freight was transported on Austria’s railway network by all domestic and foreign railway operating companies in 2019. The breakdown by modes of transport was as follows: national transport 28.0 million tonnes, international goods receipt 27.2 million tonnes, international goods dispatch 17.1 million tonnes and transit 30.3 million tonnes.
The transport performance (i.e. the product of transport volume and distance) on Austrian territory totalled 21.7 billion tonne-kilometres (tkm), with national transport accounting for 4.4 billion tkm, international goods receipt for 5.8 billion tkm, international goods dispatch for 4.0 billion tkm and transit for 7.5 billion tkm.
In 2019 the operating performance of freight trains amounted to 42.8 million train-kilometres.