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 permanent 100% and the results are published annually.
The transport volume of 64.6 million tons in the reporting year 2011
was 3.8 million tons respectively 6.2% over the reference value of the
preceding year which is due both to an increase of 1.5% (2010:
Transport performance (i.e. the product of transport volume
and distance) showed a similar development with a total increase of
1 329 million tonne kilometres (tkm) to 15 871 million tkm, a rise of 9.1%
compared to the year before (2010: