The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced the results of the road freight transport survey for the first quarter of 2026.
According to the survey results, a 6.7% increase is observed in the weight of cargo/goods transported by trucks registered in Greece, in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the first quarter of 2025.
More specifically, the weight of cargo transported in the first quarter of 2026 by trucks engaged in national and international transport amounted to 54,125.0 thousand tonnes, compared with 50,736.3 thousand tonnes in the corresponding period of 2025.
Tonne-kilometres amounted to 4,945,513.3 thousand in the first quarter of 2026, recording an increase of 3.5% compared with the same period of 2025, when they had amounted to 4,777,061.6 thousand.
As regards the type of cargo with Greece as the place of loading (type of packaging for the transport of goods), from the point of view of the weight of the transported cargo in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the first quarter of 2025, the largest increase is observed in the category “Mobile, self-propelled units”, by 107.8%, while the largest decrease is observed in the category “Containers”, by 47.0%.
A similar picture is also observed in tonne-kilometres, where once again the largest increase is recorded in the category “Mobile, self-propelled units”, by 151.2%, while correspondingly the largest decrease is observed in the category “Containers”, by 47.9%.