Freight traffic

Data on freight traffic are used to determine amount of freight traffic and freight turnover in railway transport, road transport, pipeline transport, air transport and in ports.

Annual data are on activity of ports is used to obtain information on cargo loaded and unloaded at ports of Latvia by ports of Latvia, as well as by kinds of cargo loaded and unloaded.

Legal entities or natural persons who are involved in freight traffic.

Data on freight traffic are collected from:

1. enterprises involved in freight and passenger traffic by rail, except: (railway enterprises that are entirely or mostly involved in industry or similar objects, of which in ports, and railway enterprises that mostly provide domestic tourism services);
2. enterprises involved in transportation of gas, oil and oil products by pipelines;
3. enterprises involved in licensed freight and passenger traffic by air;
4. enterprises engaged in loading and unloading cargoes in ports;
5. legal entities and natural persons who are owners or holders of lorries that have gone through vehicle inspection at the moment of the survey and may be legally used. The survey does not include special vehicles – fire-fighter motor transport, motor cranes, platform lorries, road repair transport etc. – as well as lorries that are more than 25 years old and have a carrying capacity of less than 3.5 t. Starting with 2017, special concrete mixers are included in the survey from the list of special lorries.

Statistics Law.

Statistics database

Data in EU-27 are published in Eurostat website, section: Transport.

Data on cargo turnover at ports are obtained by complying information from report form 2-ports (short) "Survey of ports activity", but Eurostat in its data bases publishes data obtained by complying information from report form 2-ports "Survey of incoming and outgoing ships at ports".

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Data are collected from:

1. CSB weekly report form 2-auto "Freight traffic by road";
2. CSB annual report form 1-railway "Survey on railway transport";
3. CSB monthly report form 2-railway "Survey on railway transport";
4. CSB monthly report form 2-pipeline transport "Survey on the transport of oil and oil products" developed by the CSB;
5. CSB annual report form 1-gas "Survey on gas utilisation" developed by the CSB;
6. CSB monthly report form 2-airports "Survey of aircraft traffic through the airports".
7. CSB monthly report form 2-ports (short) "Survey of ports activities";
8. CSB monthly report form 2-ports "Survey of incoming and outgoing ships at ports";
9. Information from the Ministry of Transport.

Data on freight traffic are obtained conducting full-scope survey, except data on freight traffic by road are collected conducting a sample size survey (the sample includes 120 lorries each week). The volume of freight transport by road is obtained by conducting a sample survey of lorries where the respondent is an owner or a renter of lorry. The survey questionnaire shows the work of this one specified lorry during the given week.

As it is not possible to ensure implementation of all requirements of Council Directives 2009/42/EC (6 May 2009) on statistical reports regarding freight and passenger traffic by sea with report form 2-ports (short) "Survey of ports activity", ports with annual freight turnover of 1 mln tons and more and/or annual passenger turnover of 200 thsd passengers and more submit report form 2-ports "Survey of incoming and outgoing ships at ports". This report is prepared electronically, and vessel manifest information provided by each incoming and outgoing vessel is used as data source.

Latvia publishes data obtained by complying information from report form 2-ports (short) "Survey of ports activity", but Eurostat in its data bases publishes data obtained by complying information from report form 2-ports "Survey of incoming and outgoing ships at ports".

Data on traffic by air are collected from airports of Latvia with passenger turnover (arrivals and departures) of 150 000 passengers and more per year.

Veidlapā Nr.2-ostas (īsā) "Pārskats par ostu darbību" pārvadāto kravu svars ostās tiek aprēķināts pēc bruto-bruto svara. Veidlapā Nr.2-ostas "Pārskats par ienākošajiem un izejošajiem kuģiem ostās" pēc bruto svara.