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:

  1. Sea transportation

  2. Rail transportation

  3. Road transportation

  4. Air transportation

  5. Pipeline transportation

  6. Electric grid transportation

  7. 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