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In 2014 57 mln tons of the freight was carried by train, which is an increase of 2.2% compared to the previous year. National freights by rail comprised 1.2 mln tons – 6.7% more than in 2013. In international traffic the volume of freight carried by rail rose by 1.1 mln tons or 2.1%. Import freight traffic grew by 3.6%, but export freight traffic – by 3.8%. But freight traffic in transit through Latvia reduced by 29.5%. Freight traffic by rail to/from Latvian ports rose by 4%, comprising 84.3% of international traffic.

Freight traffic by rail by quarters, mln t

Data source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

In 2014 62.2 mln tons of the freight was carried by road, which is a rise of 1.6 mln tons (2.7%) compared to 2013. Growth in the volume of freights was mainly determined by increase of 12.4% in the transportation of products of agriculture, hunting and forestry.

Freight traffic by road by type of transport

The bulk (81.2%) of the total freight volumes by road was national freight, where the indicator remained at the level of the previous year (increase of 0.2%). International freight traffic rose by 1.5 million tons (15.3%).

More than one third (36.5%) of the total volume of freights carried by road were comprised by metal ores and other mining and quarrying products and peat, 20.3% – products of agriculture, hunting and forestry, fish and other fishing products, but 12.1% – by wood and products of wood (except furniture), paper and paper products.

Main freight traffic by road in 2014, %

Data source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

In 2014 5.7 mln tons of oil products were transported by the oil products pipeline, a rise of 4.2% on 2013.

More information on transport activity is available in the CSB database in section "Transport".