The survey on transport in pipelines covers inland transport, international receipt and dispatch as well as transit. It is conducted using voluntary reports by the pipeline operating companies. The rate of return constitutes 100% and the results are published annually. Due to confidentiality reasons it is not possible to distinct the results by type of transport.
The transport volume of 67.1 million tonnes in the reporting year 2020 was 7.6 million tonnes respectively 10.1% lower than the reference value of the preceding year (2019: 74.7 million tonnes). A decrease of 8.3% to 35.5 million tonnes (2019: 38.7 million tonnes) was registered in transports of petroleum and products of petroleum and the volume of transported natural gas decreased by 12.1% to 31.6 million tonnes (2019: 36.0 million tonnes).
Transport performance (i.e. the product of transport volume
and distance) showed a decrease of