Source of data:
National Institute of Statistics

TRANSPORT

Railway transport

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Railway engines 1) number 3260 3188 2059 2061
Waggons 1) thou waggons 87 65 61 59
Carriages 1) number 6019 5560 5584 5523
Transported goods million tons 71 71 73 69
Distance covered by goods 2) billion tons-km 15 15 17 17
National and international passengers transport million passengers 96 95 99 92
Distance covered by passengers million passengers-km 8502 8529 8638 7985

Inland waterway transport

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Ships without propulsion for merchandise transport 3) number 1682 1681 1661 1184
Ships for passengers transport 3) number 107 110 111 57
Transported goods million tons 14 13 15 17
- private majority  ownership  million  tons 12 12 14 16
Distance covered by goods billion tons-km 4 4 4 5
National and international passengers transport million passengers *) *) *) *)
Distance covered by passengers million passengers-km 18 16 19 24

Transport via petroleum pipe-lines

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Transported goods million tons 10 11 13 13
Distance covered by goods billion tons-km 2 2 2 2

Sea transport

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Freight ships 3) number 157 140 129 36
Transported goods thou tons 295 231 157 65
- private majority  ownership  thou tons 238 231 157 65
Distance covered by goods million tons-km 1333 611 412 140

Air transport
Registered civil aircrafts with air-navigation certificate

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
- for passengers
transport 		 number 32 34 33 44
- for freight transport  number 1 1 1  
Transported goods thou tons 7 6 5 6
Distance covered by goods million tons-km 11 9 7 7
National and international
passengers transport		 million passengers 1 1 1 2
Distance covered by passengers million passengers-km 1843 1760 1613 2093

Road transport

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Transported goods  million tons  267 276 294 307
- private majority  ownership million tons 210 224 244 271
Distance covered by goods billion tons-km 25 31 37 52
National and international passengers transport million passengers 191 216 217 238
Distance covered by passengers million passengers-km 6987 94554) 9438 11812
1) Railway transport means existing in inventory at end of year.
2) Tariff covered by goods.
3) Data refer to registered ships in the Registration File of Romanian Naval Authority. *) Under 0.5.
4) Rectified data as against those previously published.

Number of registered motor vehicles
(thou pieces)

2002 2003 2004 2005
Buses 27 26 25 22
Microbuses 14 16 18 17
Cars (including taxicabs) 2973 3088 3225 3364
Motor bicycles (including mopeds) 133 133 130 104
Motorcycles (including motortricycles) 106 103 105 94
Merchandise motor vehicles 447 463 482 494
Source: Ministry of Administration and Interior (Direction of Driving Licences and Vehicles Registration).

Harbour goods traffic
(thou tons)

2002 2003 2004 2005
Sea traffic 32698 36660 40531 47694
- loading 17286 17147 18225 22609
- unloading 15412 19513 22306 25085
Inland waterways harbour traffic of goods 20972 27593 31211 33648
- loading 9285 10883 14606 15138
- unloading 11687 14101 16605 18510
- transit - 2609 - -

Airport passengers and freight traffic

M.U. 2002 2003 2004 2005
Passengers thou passengers 2580 2900 3406 4339
Freight (including mail) tons 16800 15959 19697 20226
Aircraft movements number 63570 76149 84548 104915

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