Freight transport on European Union inland waterways reached 118.0 billion tonne-kilometres in 2025, marking a three per cent decrease equivalent to minus 3.7 billion tonne-kilometres compared with 2024, according to Eurostat.
Between 2015 and 2017 , freight transport across the bloc’s inland waterways remained steady at roughly 145 to 146 billion tonne-kilometres .
Activity dropped sharply in 2018 , partly recovered in 2019 and 2021 , but stayed below the
