Mainly on the Elbe River - Central Europe

Chart 7 - Foreign trade with chemicals (SITC5 4 – chemicals and related products) - import
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
European Union (27 countries) 70.5 76.9 80.76 80.51 88.53 96.44 109.22 120.63 124.35
European Union (25 countries) 70.58 76.89 80.65 80.37 88.26 96.03 108.68 120.1 123.7
European Union (15 countries) 71.37 77.54 81.16 80.76 89 98.3 112.01 124.34 128.19
Belgium 31.4 35.59 50.08 49.63 55.23 64.46 68.45 72.7 71.53
Bulgaria 0.66 0.82 0.86 0.96 1.2 1.39 1.63 1.92 2.2
Czech Republic 3.9 4.43 4.82 5.21 6.06 6.69 7.69 8.89 9.92
Denmark 4.87 5.18 5.66 5.61 6.06 6.71 7.47 7.79 8.28
Germany (including ex-GDR from 1991) 51.64 57.69 57.72 58.79 66.41 75.97 88.34 98.73 102.62
Estonia 0.4 0.43 0.49 0.54 0.64 0.76 0.97 1.06 1.13
Ireland 6.09 6.35 7 6.89 7.07 7.38 7.94 8.09 8.28
Greece 4.21 4.55 3.65 5.02 5.72 6.36 6.92 7.75 8.26
Spain 18.03 19.8 22 23.38 24.89 26.9 29 31.65 34.15
France 40.87 42.15 42.44 44.12 46.8 51.16 53.99 59.63 61.64
Italy 31.48 32.39 33.73 34.37 38.06 40.82 45 48 46.95
Cyprus 0.34 0.38 0.41 0.41 0.44 0.46 0.51 0.57 0.64
Latvia 0.43 0.49 0.54 0.57 0.65 0.75 0.98 1.14 1.3
Lithuania 0.67 0.81 0.92 0.98 1.16 1.41 1.79 2.28 2.43
Luxembourg (Grand-Duché) 1.12 1.25 1.19 1.22 1.32 1.42 1.53 1.68 1.69
Hungary 3.08 3.38 3.69 4.09 4.63 4.99 5.89 6.44 7.29
Malta 0.23 0.22 0.23 0.24 0.26 0.27 0.29 0.33 0.32
Netherlands 25.04 26.09 28.06 27.67 31.14 35.15 38.85 44.48 44.7
Austria 7.8 8.52 8.92 9.28 9.59 10.8 12.14 13.04 13.65
Poland 7.46 8.18 8.69 8.91 10.2 11.64 13.64 15.7 18.51
Portugal 4.07 4.39 4.64 4.75 5.05 5.39 5.96 6.35 6.66
Romania 1.42 1.72 2.03 2.18 2.72 3.31 4.3 5.26 6.15
Slovenia 1.36 1.44 1.55 1.63 1.85 2.04 2.25 2.64 2.79
Slovakia 1.51 1.7 1.87 1.95 2.33 2.7 3.19 3.87 4.33
Finland 3.88 3.96 4.18 4.34 4.55 5.13 5.84 5.82 6.13
Sweden 7.15 7.32 7.34 7.87 8.67 9.59 10.61 11.92 12.73
United Kingdom 34.74 37.24 39.13 38.73 42.26 43.94 47.77 51.97 48.58
Iceland 0.2 0.24 0.25 0.26 0.28 0.31 0.33 0.36 :
Norway 3.24 3.4 3.5 3.44 3.62 4.18 4.66 5.03 5.69
Switzerland 14.86 18.06 19.36 18.81 20.01 22.11 23.83 26.33 25.46
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Source: Eurostat
IMPORTS IN 1000 MILLION OF ECU/EURO
Note: The chart above was taken over from Eurostat. There is an obvious mistake in the chart; it
is not possible that the EU 15 trade is higher than the EU 25 trade, respectively EU 27 trade.
Probably, the processor switched the two lines in the chart in either names or in values of EU 27
and EU 15.
Despite the mentioned mistake, the Eurostat chart shows constant growth in imports of
chemicals, both across the EU partner countries and the ChemLog project partners (the only
exception with slight decrease in 2008 is Italy).
4 SITC (Standard International Trade Classification) – a classification dividing the trade commodities into ten categories:
0 – Food and live animals, 1 – Beverages and tobacco, 2 – Crude materials (without fuels), 3 – Mineral fuels and lubricants, 4 - Animal
and vegetable oils, fats and waxes, 5 - Chemicals, 6 - Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material, 7 - Machinery and transport
equipment, 8 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles, 9 - Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere in the SITC.
A feasibility study for “Improvement of Conditions for the River Transport in Central Europe (mainly on the Elbe
River)“ realized within the ChemLog project 30