Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freight activity around Australia during 2007–08.

Up until the early 1960s, railways dominated all but the shortest land-based freight task. Since then, vast improvements in road vehicle productivity and road infrastructure quality, the gradual removal of regulations restricting road freight carriage and the exponential growth in interstate trade has broadened the range of freight tasks for which road is better suited than rail.

Australian Transport Statistics provides a short summary of a diverse range of transport statistics. Topics include employment, GDP, infrastructure expenditure, passenger and freight movements, trade, motor vehicles, fatalities and estimated greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the transport industry. Information is provided for the road, rail, maritime and aviation sectors. Data are gathered from various sources both within BITRE and external organisations.

• Australian transport statistics Yearbook 2009
  
  stats_001.pdf
  (4.11 MB)
• Australian transport statistics Yearbook 2009–Spreadsheets
  
  
  stats_001.zip
  (572.95 KB)

Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia and the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.

This report presents forecasts of air passenger and aircraft movements through Australia's eight capital city airports (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney) to 2030.

• Aircraft movements through capital city airports to 2029–30
  
  report_117.pdf
  (3.45 MB)

This statistical report is the third in this series and is a result of collaboration between the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).

• Rail Freight Performance Indicators 2007–08–Statistical Report
  
  stats_004.pdf
  (2.4 MB)

Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia and the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.

The Australian Sea Freight series presents statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea and information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freight activity around Australia during 2008–09.

This report provides estimates and forecasts of interstate freight moving between 56 state-to-state origin-destination pairs, for example, South Australia-Queensland.

• Interstate freight in Australia
  
  report_120.pdf
  (4.74 MB)

Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia and the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.