This is the latest in a series of BITRE reports that provide information on Australian sea freight movements, vessel activity, the use of coastal trading licences and the size and composition of the Australian trading fleet.

The latest import and export data has been made available in machine readable form on the National Freight Data catalogue.

The Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme (TFES) provides financial assistance for costs incurred by shippers of eligible non-bulk goods moved by sea across Bass Strait. This report is BITRE's second 4-yearly monitoring review of all components of the TFES. The focus is the volume and value of eligible claims for goods shipped between Tasmania and the mainland in the 4 years from 2019–20 to 2022–23.

The Australian Government spent $101.0 million on the Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme in the 2 years to June 2023 ($41.8 million in 2021–22 and $59.2 million in 2022–23).

The aim of the Australian Infrastructure Statistics and Transport Yearbook is to provide a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. You can download the PDF or data files:

• Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024 (PDF 9.2 MB) 
• Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024 data (ZIP: 2 MB) 

For a summary of each chapter select from the list below:

1. Infrastructure and the Economy	2. Infrastructure Construction
3. Road-related Revenue and Expenditure	4. Freight
5. Passengers	6. Road
7. Rail	8. Aviation
9. Shipping	10. Transport Safety
11. Transport Energy and Environment

Waterline reports on trends in throughput, container handling productivity on the waterfront and landside of ports in Australia and the cost of importing and exporting containers via 5 major container ports. It covers the loading and unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.

This issue covers port terminal activity up to the June quarter 2023.
 

Consultation Draft Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme Monitoring Report 2024.

This release provides statistics relating to the number of vehicles registered for road use in Australia on 31 January 2024. The statistics encompass all vehicles that were registered with an Australian state or territory motor vehicle registry for unrestricted use on public roads, and reported by jurisdictions to the National Exchange of Vehicle and Driver Information System (NEVDIS). This is the third annual release of Road Vehicles Australia, which replaces the ABS Motor Vehicle Census, discontinued in 2021. More statistics are available on the BITRE website and data.gov.au.

Trainline is a compendium of Australia's railways, providing insights, analysis and an understanding of the railway industry. Australia's railways are evolving, with changes within and outside the industry. These changes include logistics, commodity flows, technology, urban patronage and regional passenger services. The publication presents an overview and data on railway transport tasks performed; characteristics of the railways and train operators' rolling stock that runs; and aspects of railway performance including safety, environment and reliability.

Trainline 11 gives an overview of freight, urban and non-urban passenger rail. The report analyses traffic levels, the provision of infrastructure and rolling stock, and railway performance. It is the eleventh in the publication series.

Aviation plays a key role in Australia’s transport system, providing regular scheduled services between Australia's highly dispersed major population centres and vital connectivity for rural and remote communities. As a large island nation, located significant distances from our nearest neighbours, aviation is also the primary means of access for international visitors and for domestic residents travelling overseas.

This report presents long-term forecasts of Australian commercial air passenger and freight activity, and forecasts of air passenger numbers through Australia’s 14 busiest airports / air catchments – i.e. Australia’s eight capital cities and six busiest non-capital city airports – and air freight volumes through Australia’s mainland state capital city airports. The forecasts are based on econometric models of Australian domestic and international air passenger and air freight demand, and the most recent long-term economic outlooks for Australia and developed and major developing countries. The forecasts are intended to help inform long-term Australian aviation policy development and planning.

The excel tables present annual road deaths, population and road death rates per 100,000 population from 2012 to 2021 by state and territory (where data is available), by Indigenous status. The excel tables include road deaths and road death rates per 100,000 population for First Nations Peoples by age group, sex, road user, remoteness area and vehicle type. Additional tables for First Nations Peoples population are available by state and territory and age group and sex.