UK Trade with EU: Large Goods Vehicles
(asked on 24th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of unladen lorries (a) entering the EU from the UK and (b) entering the UK from the EU in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
The requested information is set out in the tables below. This information was sourced from the Port Freight statistics which can be found here (Annual statistics for UK port freight traffic for 2020) and here (Downloadable Excel file which summarises UK major port freight traffic statistics from 2000-2020).
Number of unladen lorries entering the EU from the UK | |
Year | Amount |
2010 | 669,316 |
2011 | 599,257 |
2012 | 653,738 |
2013 | 720,417 |
2014 | 751,798 |
2015 | 785,011 |
2016 | 802,465 |
2017 | 806,399 |
2018 | 742,517 |
2019 | 727,517 |
2020 | 666,304 |
In total from 2010-2020 this adds up to be 7,924,739 unladen vehicles entering the EU from the UK.
Number of unladen lorries entering the UK from the EU | |
2010 | 87,225 |
2011 | 69,076 |
2012 | 103,685 |
2013 | 99,367 |
2014 | 112,053 |
2015 | 67,256 |
2016 | 61,855 |
2017 | 71,008 |
2018 | 75,407 |
2019 | 80,783 |
2020 | 70,636 |
In total from 2010-2020 this adds up to be 898,351 unladen vehicles entering the UK from the EU.
Following EU Exit, the market access arrangements allow the vast majority of UK haulage journeys to and from the EU to continue as they did before the end of the transition period.