Statistical Terms Glossary

The movement of goods and/or passengers using merchant ships on journeys undertaken wholly or partly at sea.
Note: This definition includes:
- The one-port transport, i.e. the movement of goods shipped to offshore installations, or for dumping at sea, or reclaimed from the seabed and unloaded in port;
- Bunker oil shipped to vessels offshore;
- Fluvio-maritime movement of goods and/or passengers by merchant ships.
Excluded are:
- Bunkers and stores supplied to vessels in port;
- Movement of goods and/or passengers on inland waterways vessels between seaports and inland waterway ports (it is included in inland waterway transport);
- Movement of goods carried internally between different basins or docks of the same port.

Enterprise carrying out in one or more places activities for the production of sea transport services and whose main activities according to the value added is sea transport.

Enterprise carrying out in one or more places activities for the supply of sea transport services as its main activity according to value added.

Powered ship designed for the towing and/or pushing of ships or other floating structures. Port tugs are included.

A transport operation partly by inland waterways and partly by sea, without trans-shipment. It can be operated by inland waterway vessel or seagoing ships.

Unit of measure representing the movement of one seat/authorized standing place available in a road vehicle when performing the service for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of seat available in a passenger aircraft when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of one seat available in a passenger railway vehicle when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the movement over one kilometre of one seat available in an inland waterways transport (IWT) passenger vessel when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the movement of one seat available in a passenger railway vehicle when performing the services for which it is primarily intended over one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the number of seats available or offered in a passenger means of transport and the distance to be travelled (in kilometres).

Used in emergencies or domestic transport on which small aircrafts land and provides limited services

Railway enterprise other than principal which carries out transport operations for the public.

Inland waterways transport (IWT) freight vessel having its own means of mechanical propulsion.

Self-propelled barge designed or fitted to push pushed or pushed-towed barges.

Self-propelled pusher barge for the bulk transport of liquids or gases.

Self-propelled barge intended for the bulk transport of liquids or gases.

Inland waterways transport (IWT) freight vessel having a carrying capacity of at least 20 tonnes also designed for the transport of goods by sea and equipped with their own means of propulsion developing at least 37 kW.

Goods road vehicle with no front axle designed in such a way as to be hauled by road tractor.

A casualty which does not qualify as a very serious casualty and which involves: A fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull -defect, etc., resulting in : Structural damage rendering the IWT vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage etc. or; Pollution (regardless of quantity) and/or; A breakdown necessitating towage or assistance from the bank.

An incident involving circumstances indicating that an accident nearly occurred.
Note: The difference between an accident and a serious incident lies only in the result.

A non-fatal injury which is sustained by a person in a transport accident and which:
- Requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within 7 days from the date the injury occurred; or
- Results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes, or nose); or
- Involves lacerations which cause severe hemorrhage, nerve, muscle or tendon damage; or
- Involves injury to any internal organ; or
- Involves second- or third-degree burns, or burns affecting more than 5 per cent of the body surface; or
- Involves verified exposure to infectious substances or injurious radiation.

Any accident involving at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one killed or seriously injured person. Accidents in workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded.

A casualty which does not qualify as a very serious casualty and which involves a fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull defect, etc., resulting in:• Structural damage rendering the marine vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage etc.; or• Pollution (regardless of quantity); and/or• A breakdown necessitating towage or shore assistance.

A vessel casualty that does not qualify as a very serious casualty and involves a fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull defect, etc., resulting in:
- Structural damage rendering the vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage, etc.; and/or
- Pollution (regardless of quantity); and/or
- Breakdown necessitating towage or assistance from the shore.

Seagoing self-propelled surface-displacement vessel.

Sea and/or inland waterway self-propelled surface-displacement vessel/boat.

Seagoing self-propelled surface-displacement vessel.

The unloading of cargo from one merchant ship and its loading into another to complete a journey, even where the cargo may have dwell time ashore before its onward journey.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of a ship over one kilometre.