The volume of transported soil materials decreased by nine per cent and the volume of transport for other goods decreased by four per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, said the data derived from the statistics on goods transport by road compiled by Statistics Finland.
The total transport volume of lorries amounted to 5.8 billion tonne-kilometres in the fourth quarter of 2013, which was ten per cent more than in the corresponding quarter of one year before, the data says.
Ninety-four per cent of the transport volume was transported in professional transport and six per cent in private transport.
The data for the statistics are collected from lorry owners with a quarterly sample survey.
