Follow Latvia Investment Immigration and stay updated on Latvian economic news: Data from the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia shows that in 2014, Latvia's road freight volume reached 62.239 million tons, an increase of 2.7% over the previous year. Of this, 50.565 million tons were domestic goods, an increase of 0.2%, and 11.674 million tons were international goods, an increase of 15.3%. By cargo type, metal ores and other mining and quarrying products accounted for 36.5%, agricultural, hunting, forestry, and fishery products accounted for 20.3%, and wood and wood products (excluding furniture and paper products) accounted for 12.1%.
In 2014, the national rail freight volume in Latvia was 57.039 million tons, an increase of 6.7% over the previous year. Among this, import freight volume increased by 3.6%, export freight volume increased by 3.8%, transit freight volume decreased by 29.5%, and rail freight volume transshipped through Latvian ports increased by 4%.
In addition, in 2014, Latvia transported 5.7 million tons of petroleum products via oil pipelines, an increase of 4.2% over the previous year.
