Statistical Terms Glossary

Transport of complete road vehicles, using roll-on roll-off techniques, on trains normally comprising low-floor wagons throughout.

Transport of complete road vehicles, using roll-on roll-off techniques, on trains normally comprising low-floor wagons throughout.

Loading/unloading through the vessel’s doors/ramps by a wheeled means of conveyance.

A location at which a Ro-Ro vessel can berth and load and unload motor vehicles and other mobile Ro-Ro units via ramps from ship to shore and vice versa.

Ro-Ro cargo consists of goods, whether or not in containers, on Ro-Ro units, which are rolled on and off the vessels, which carry them, by sea.

Ro-Ro ship with facilities for the carriage of goods only.

Ro-Ro ship with facilities for the carriage of both passengers and goods.

Ship arranged for Ro-Ro loading/unloading.

Wheeled equipment for carrying goods, such as a lorry, trailer or semi-trailer, which can be driven or towed onto a vessel or train.

Two-way course of travel to a destination and back to origin, along the same route, consisting of two separate journeys, one outward and one return. The destination of the outward journey is recorded as the midpoint of the round trip.

A track providing end-to-end line continuity designed for running trains between stations or places indicated in timetables, network statements, rosters or other indications/publications as independent points of departure or arrival for the conveyance of passengers or goods.

It refers to passenger cars that have (2-5) seats.

A commercial air service operated according to a published timetable, or with such a regular frequency that it constitutes an easily recognizable systematic series of flights.

Passenger road vehicle activities scheduled and performed according to a published timetable, or so regular and frequent as to constitute a recognizably systematic series.

A service provided by sea vessels scheduled and performed according to a published timetable, or so regular or frequent as to constitute a recognisably systematic series.

Traffic provided by sea vessels scheduled and performed according to a published timetable, or so regular or frequent as to constitute a recognisably systematic series.

Vessel designed as non self-propelled unit for the carriage of goods by sea in holds, in tanks or on a weather deck space only.

Ship designed for the towing and/or pushing of ships or other floating structures.

Floating marine structure with one or more surface displacement hulls.

Sea going which is registered at a given date in a country other than the reporting country.

Sea going vessel which is registered at a given date in the reporting country.

Sea traffic from a specified point of origin to a specified point of destination.

Any person who makes a voyage on a seagoing vessel. Service staff assigned to seagoing vessels are not regarded as passengers.

A passenger disembarking from a merchant ship at the end of the sea journey.
Note: A transfer from one merchant ship to another is regarded as disembarkation before re-embarkation. Cruise passengers on a cruise excursion are excluded.

A passenger who boards a merchant ship to undertake a sea journey.
Note: A transfer from one merchant ship to another is regarded as embarkation after disembarkation. Cruise passengers on a cruise excursion are excluded.

The movement of a passenger from the port at which the journey begins to the port at which it ends. For some passengers, notably cruise passengers, this can be the same port.

The combination of the port of embarkation and the port of disembarkation of passengers conveyed by sea whatever itinerary is followed.

A transport service provided by a seagoing vessel at sea.

The movement of a vessel directly from one port to another without a port call at an intermediate port.

The movement of seagoing vessels at sea.