Logistics Facts
The data contained in these tables has been sourced from the book Transportation and the Belt and Road Initiative, in which more data as well as the original primary sources of the data are available. We define herewith 7 modes of transportation:
Sea transportation
Rail transportation
Road transportation
Air transportation
Pipeline transportation
Electric grid transportation
Digital transportation
Transportation volumes
#
Transportation mode
Creation date (years)
Unit
World
Year
1
Sea
200
Dry bulk cargo (million tons)
Crude oil (million tons)
Containerized & other cargo (million tons)
Global full containers (million TEU)
Refined petroleum products (million tons)
Liquefied natural gas (million tons)
LPG and other gases (million tons)
Chemical cargo (million tons)
Total cargo (million tons)
4,895
2,347
2,060
206.7
1,037
269
131
216
10.955
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2
Rail
200
Cargo (billion Tkm)
People (billion Pkm)
9,900
3,700
2017
2017
3
Road
100
Cargo (billion Tkm)
14,991
2017
4
Air
70
Cargo (metric tons per year)
People (passengers per year)
Commercial flights per day (flight)
Planes in the air at any given time (plane)
52,000,000
4,100,000,000
100,000
16,000
2017
2017
2018
2018
5
Pipeline
140
Oil (million barrel per day)
Gas (billion CBM per year)
99.5
3,781
2017
2018
6
Grid
120
Electric traffic (Gwh per year)
25,980,400
2017
7
Digital
25
Internet traffic (billion GB per day)
Total Internet data (Petabytes)
Total world websites (website)
Total Dark web websites (website)
World emails (email per day)
World spams (spam per day)
Share Deep web (% Internet)
Share Public web (% Internet)
Share Dark web (% Internet)
3,500
7.5
1,900,000,000
30,000
300,000,000,000
150,000,000,000
95%
5%
0.03%
2018
2016
2019
2016
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
Transportation infrastructure
The data contained in these tables has been sourced from the book Transportation and the Belt and Road Initiative, in which more data is available.
#
Transportation mode
Creation date (years)
Unit
World
Year
1
Sea
200
Commercial ports
Non commercial ports
Total ports
17,970
6,977
24,947
2018
2018
2018
2
Rail
200
Rail - diesel (km)
Rail - electric (km)
Speedrail (km)
Total (km)
817,757
228,243
54,000
1,100,000
2018
2018
2018
2018
3
Road
100
Road (km)
Expressways (km)
Total (km)
Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
63,873,156
411,853
64,285,009
4,000
2018
2018
2018
2019
4
Air
70
Airports with passenger services
Airports with cargo services
Airports with ICAO code
Total airports, aerodromes & airstrips
10,000
3,200
43,983
200,000
2018
2018
2018
2019
5
Pipeline
140
Large utilized pipelines (unit)
Large reserve pipelines (unit)
Total large pipelines (unit)
Identified pipelines & segments (unit)
Countries hosting pipelines (countries)
Pipeline length USA, Russia, China, Canada
Oil pipelines (km)
Gas pipelines (km)
Products pipelines (km)
Total pipelines (km)
276
145
421
1,121
123
76%
563,264
2,890,391
134,923
3,588,578
2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
6
Grid
120
Electric grid length (km)
57,000,000
2013
7
Digital
25
Optic-fiber cables (km)
Large digital transmission cables (km)
Digital transmission links (unit)
Digital nodes (unit)
Submarine cables (unit)
Submarine cables (km)
Telecommunication satellites (unit)
Total satellites (unit)
Total tablets in the world (tablet)
Total computer in the world (computer)
Total smartphones in the world (phone)
Total mobile phones in the world (phone)
Total data center in the world (data center)
Total IoT devices in the world (IoT device)
1,000,000,000
13,700,000
34,512
22,413
420
1,100,000
792
4,857
1,000,000,000
2,000,000,000
5,000,000,000
9,000,000,000
8,000,000
20,000,000,000
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2017
2017
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
Transportation vehicles
The data contained in these tables has been sourced from the book Transportation and the Belt and Road Initiative, in which more data is available.
#
Transportation mode
Creation date (years)
Unit
World
Date
1
Sea
200
Warships
Fishing vessels
Recreational boats
Commercial ships
Total ships
4,700
4,000,000
30,000,000
93,359
34,098,059
2017
2017
2017
2017
2017
2
Rail
200
Locomotives
Freight wagons
Coaches
Metros
100,472
3,536,105
457,798
110,383
2017
2017
2017
2017
3
Road
100
Commercial vehicles
Taxis (included in commercial vehicles)
Electric vehicles (included in commercial)
Passenger cars
Electric vehicles (included in passenger)
Total vehicles
335,000,000
18,000,000
800,000
947,000,000
3,200,000
1,282,000,000
2015
2016
2018
2015
2018
2015
4
Air
70
Freighter planes
Passenger planes
Total commercial planes
Active general aviation aircrafts
Military aircrafts
Military helicopters (included in military)
Civil helicopters
Total helicopters
Total planes (excluding drones)
Airlines member of IATA
Airlines with ICAO code
1,770
24,330
26,100
446,000
53,953
31,192
38,536
69,728
564,589
290
5,000
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
5
Pipeline
140
-
-
2017
6
Grid
120
-
-
2017
7
Digital
25
Telecommunication satellites
Total satellites
792
4,857
2017
2017
The data contained in these tables has been sourced from the book Transportation and the Belt and Road Initiative, in which more data is available.
List of Abbreviations
- not applicable
20’ Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit
40’ Forty-foot Equivalent Unit
$ United States of America dollar
BCM Billion Cubic Meters
Billion means one thousand million
Bpd Barrel per day
BPPA billion passengers per annum
CBM Cubic Meter
EUR Euro
FEU Forty foot Equivalent Unit
FPOD Final Port Of Discharge
GB Gigabytes
GWh Gigawatt per hour
IATA International Air Transport Association
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
Km Kilometer
Km2 Square kilometer
Km/h Kilometer per hour
KWh Kilowatt per hour
LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
M2 Square Meter
Mb/d Million barrel per day
MMTPY Million Metric Tons per Year
Mtoe Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent
N/A Not available
NEV New Energy Vehicle
OPOL Original Port of Loading
PC Personal Computer
POD Port of Discharge
POL Port of Loading
PPP Purchasing Power Parity
Pkm Passenger Kilometers
Q&A Questions and Answers
SEZ Special Economic Zone
SQM Square Meter
TEU Twenty-foot Equivalent Units
Tkm Tonne Kilometers
Toe Tonnes of Oil Equivalent
TWh Terawatt per hour