In the third quarter of this year on railway lines 22.7 million tonnes of with an increase of +1.8% over the same period in 2023. Today the Austrian statistical office announced that the only national traffic recorded an increase of +8.7% being amounted to 6.8 million tonnes. Import traffic, with 5.2 million tonnes, remained stable, while export sales, with 4.2 million tons, marked a increase of +9.1%. Transit traffic decreased by -6.7% having been equal to over 6.6 million tons. In the July-September 2024 the productivity of the rail transport amounted to a total of 4.9 billion tonne-kilometres (+0.6%).

In the first nine months of this year, the total volume of transport was 70.6 million tonnes, with an increase of +1.7% over the corresponding period of 2023. The domestic traffic alone amounted to 19.9 million tonnes (+5.0%), imports to 16.0 million tonnes tons (-1.7%), export traffic to 12.7 million tons tons (+10.6%) and transit traffic to 21.9 million tons (-3.2%). Over the period, transport productivity amounted to 15.7 billion ton-kilometers (+3.7%).