Volume of transport in domestic coastal waterborne traffic decreased by 7 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025

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release | Domestic waterborne traffic 2025, March

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Domestic waterborne traffic statistics will be published quarterly in the future.
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Preliminary data of the statistics on domestic waterborne traffic will be supplemented during the remainder of 2025.
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According to Statistics Finland’s preliminary data, the total volume of goods transported in domestic coastal waterborne traffic was 0.8 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2025. Transports decreased by 7 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domestic water transport took place almost only in coastal waterways.

Key selections

  • In the first quarter of 2025, oil products and coal and coke were transported most in domestic waterborne traffic.
  • The supplementing of the preliminary data of the statistics for 2024 concerning transport of timber in inland waterways will be exceptionally postponed to the remainder of 2025.

Oil products were transported most in domestic waterborne traffic in the first quarter of 2025

Oil products were transported most, in total 441,675 tonnes, which was 51 per cent of all transport. Timber was transported next most, 117,828 tonnes, making up 14 per cent of all transport. Preliminary data on timber transport are supplemented at the end of the statistical reference year.

Change

Domestic waterborne traffic statistics will be published quarterly in the future.
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Change

Preliminary data of the statistics on domestic waterborne traffic will be supplemented during the remainder of 2025.
Read more about the change

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      Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Domestic waterborne traffic [online publication].
      Reference period: 2025, March. ISSN=2670-1979. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 7.6.2025].
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