Transport

The world is interconnected through transport. The sector ensures that bananas from Costa Rica reach our tables or that wooden furniture from Estonia finds a place in Finnish or Swedish homes. A great transport system is an important component of the modern living and business environment.

Transport is divided into land transport (i.e. road and rail), water transport and air transport. Together these modes influence almost all economic activities, including the service sector. The developments and demand of these, in turn, have an impact on the health of the transportation sector. Both local and international economic situation play a role.

Statistics Estonia publishes the following data on transport:

  • number of passengers carried by road, rail, sea and air transport, and freight volumes;
  • data on transport infrastructure;
  • registered vehicles and accidents;
  • economic indicators of transport enterprises.

Well-functioning transport networks promote local business and, more generally, the competitiveness of the economy. Transport indicators help to contribute to faster and more convenient modes of movement, to people and goods reaching destinations safely and without interruption, to quality of roads and environmental sustainability.

Persons killed in road traffic accidents 47
-14.5%
TOTAL 2022 ASCENDING
Freight transport by road 5.85 million tonnes
27.0%
QUARTER 2023 2ND
Bus passengers on domestic and international lines 40.35 million
19.85%
QUARTER 2023 2ND
Passengers carried by rail 654 thousand
-5.9%
2023-10
Freight transport by rail 0.77 million tonnes
1.8%
2023-10
Passenger cars registered in the traffic register 849,294
2.8%
2022
First registrations of passenger cars 1,747
4.1%
2023-10
Goods transported through ports 6.35 million tonnes
0.5%
QUARTER 2023 2ND
Number of arrived passengers in Tallinn Airport 386,290
27.3%
QUARTER 2023 2ND
International passenger transport through ports | 2nd quarter 2022 – 2nd quarter 2023
Transport of goods by railway | 4th quarter 2021 – 2nd quarter 2023
Passenger transport by bus | 4th quarter 2021 – 2nd quarter 2023
Passenger transport of transport enterprises by type of transport | 1st quarter 2022 – 4th quarter 2023
Unit: thousand
1st quarter 2022 2nd quarter 2022 3rd quarter 2022 4th quarter 2022 1st quarter 2023 2nd quarter 2023 3rd quarter 2023 4th quarter 2023
Total 32,341 41,447 41,366 44,499 45,455 51,832 .. ..
Land transport 31,439 39,610 39,006 43,063 44,259 49,670 .. ..
Sea transport 834 1,719 2,230 1,340 1,111 1,836 .. ..
Inland waterways transport 0 14 38 .. 1 12 .. ..
Air transport 67 105 92 .. 85 314 .. ..

Traffic accidents with casualties on the roads | 2018 – 2022
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Traffic accidents 1,469 1,406 1,368 1,568 1,700
Traffic accidents with fatalities 64 51 56 40 50
Traffic accidents with the participation of drunk drivers 148 139 132 133 134
Traffic accidents with fatalities with the participation of drunk drivers 12 13 12 16 13
Persons killed 67 52 60 55 47
Persons injured 1,832 1,733 1,577 1,768 1,920

Revenue of transport enterprises by type of transport (quarters) | 4th quarter 2021 – 3rd quarter 2023
Unit: million euros
4th quarter 2021 1st quarter 2022 2nd quarter 2022 3rd quarter 2022 4th quarter 2022 1st quarter 2023 2nd quarter 2023 3rd quarter 2023
Transport total 449.60 451.83 585.31 597.16 551.17 470.68 555.76 606.55
Road 351.99 369.19 470.56 462.30 447.83 380.27 395.48 394.28
Railways 9.86 8.98 8.62 8.07 7.51 6.05 7.06 6.76
Water transport 39.88 34.13 50.12 62.56 47.37 45.77 57.51 62.91
Air transport 47.87 39.52 56.01 64.23 48.46 38.59 95.71 142.61

News

Passenger traffic on domestic ship routes increased last year

According to Statistics Estonia, in 2018, compared to 2017, the number of passengers on the main scheduled domestic ship lines increased by 3%, but the number of international traffic passengers served by Estonian ports decreased by 1%. The freight volume of ports in tonnes increased by around 3%.
Read more 21. March 2019