{"id":16629,"date":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/rail-freight-in-poland-down-7-4-in-the-first-half-of-2025-yet-outpaces-most-eu-peers-in-volume\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"rail-freight-in-poland-down-7-4-in-the-first-half-of-2025-yet-outpaces-most-eu-peers-in-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/rail-freight-in-poland-down-7-4-in-the-first-half-of-2025-yet-outpaces-most-eu-peers-in-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail freight in Poland down 7.4% in the first half of 2025, yet outpaces most EU peers in volume."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Between January and June 2025, Polish rail operators transported 104.9 million tonnes of cargo\u2014a year-on-year drop of 5.1%. Transport performance measured in tonne-kilometres fell by 7.4% to 27 billion, Polish railway transport office UTK reports.<\/p>\n<p>Across 31 European countries, freight trains moved 701.5 million tonnes in the first six months of the year, down 3% from the previous year. Total transport performance reached 198.6 billion tonne-kilometres, representing a 3.6% decline.<\/p>\n<p>Germany accounted for the largest share of freight volume, with 165.2 million tonnes (23.6% of the total), followed by Poland with 104.9 million tonnes (15%) and Italy with 49 million tonnes (7%). At the opposite end of the spectrum, Ireland moved just 85,000 tonnes by rail, while Greece, North Macedonia, and Montenegro each remained under 600,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of transport performance, Germany led with 61.9 billion tonne-kilometres (31.2%), followed by Poland with 27 billion (13.6%), and France with nearly 17 billion (8.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures indicate that, despite the ongoing contraction in the European rail freight sector, Poland continues to play a central role in terms of volume and performance within the region. However, the sharper year-on-year decline in both weight and performance compared to the European average suggests mounting pressure on the domestic freight sector.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between January and June 2025, Polish rail operators transported 104.9 million tonnes of cargo\u2014a year-on-year drop of 5.1%. Transport performance measured in tonne-kilometres fell by 7.4% to 27 billion, Polish railway transport office UTK reports.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}