{"id":634743,"date":"2026-09-24T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634743\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:22:51","slug":"eu-international-trade-mostly-by-sea-in-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634743\/","title":{"rendered":"EU international trade mostly by sea in 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> imported 1.1 billion tonnes of goods from non-EU countries by sea, valued at \u20ac1 270 billion. Exports transported by sea totalled 0.5 billion tonnes, worth \u20ac1 069 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Maritime transport was the main mode of transport for the EU international trade in goods in 2025. It dominated the physical volume of trade, accounting for 73.3% of all imports and 72.6% of all exports by weight. When it comes to value, it represented a smaller share, with 50.2% of import value and 40.4% of export value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, air transport played a minor role in terms of volume but a more prominent role in terms of value. Just 0.3% of imports and 2.9% of exports were moved by air, yet these shipments made up 20.7% of the total import value and 29.1% of the total export value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Road transport also registered a higher share in value (19.5% imports and 24.9% exports) than in volume (6.0% imports and 17.4% exports).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">For rail transport, the volume (2.6% imports and 2.9% exports) exceeded the value (1.2% imports and 1.3% exports).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/int_trade_by_transport_mode_visual_01_1920x1080_v1-100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU trade in goods by mode of transport, 2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset,\" data-fileentryid=\"24316550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/INT_Trade_By_Transport_Mode_Visual_01_1920x1080_V1-100.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ds-059334__custom_22787808\/default\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ds-059334<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This news article marks <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/about\/events\/pages\/world-maritime-theme-2026-2027.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Maritime Day<\/a> on 24 September.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the EU imported 1.1 billion tonnes of goods from non-EU countries by sea, valued at \u20ac1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,31247,61,1955,60],"class_list":["post-634743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-ext","tag-ie","tag-international-trade","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}