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Road goods vehicles travelling to Europe: 2020

Number of trips made by powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers on each route to Europe for 2020.

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Road goods vehicles travelling to Europe: 2020 tables

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The statistical release for Road Goods Vehicles travelling to Europe 2020 underwent an audit for data covering the period October 2020 to December 2020. This led to a discovery of omission of data from some of the ferry routes which resulted in an increase of 52,409 (20%) trips made by unaccompanied trailers. There was no change to the figures for powered vehicles during this period.

Statistics on the number of trips made by powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers on each route to Europe for the year 2020.

When comparing the 12-month period ending December 2020 to the period ending December 2019:

  • the total number of trips made by road goods vehicles travelling from Great Britain to Europe decreased by 5% to 3.2 million
  • the number of trips made by powered vehicles decreased by 7% to 2.1 million
  • the number of trips made by unaccompanied trailers decreased by 1% to 1.1 million

Of the 2.1 million powered vehicles that travelled from Great Britain to Europe:

  • the number of trips made by UK-registered vehicles decreased by 15% to 0.3 million
  • the number of trips made by foreign-registered vehicles decreased by 6% to 1.8 million

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Published 18 February 2021

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