Mainly on the Elbe River - Central Europe

Chart 11 - Total export of the Czech Republic by individual commodities (thousands of tons)
2000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Celkem 43 550 39 692 38 723 42 827 42 014 41 079
Agriculture, hunting and forestry products; fish and other fishing products 1 925 906 2 454 1 880 1 835 2 875
Black coal and lignit; crude oil, natural gas 10 358 7 806 7 590 9 023 8 707 7 546
Metal ore, minig productsmodification of other minerals, peat; unraium and thorium 2 549 2 225 3 532 3 777 3 932 1 355
Food, beverages, tobacco 1 247 1 499 1 530 2 067 1 716 2 047
Textile, textile products; leather, leather products 965 603 1 224 1 276 960 489
Wood, wooden and cork products (no furniture); wickerwork, straw,wood-pulp, paper
paper products; priniting products, recorded media
A feasibility study for “Improvement of Conditions for the River Transport in Central Europe (mainly on the Elbe
River)“ realized within the ChemLog project 33
4 143 4 768 4 010 4 609 4 679 3 360
Coke, refined crude-oil products 568 970 1 142 1 091 1 235 2 318
Chemicals and chemical products, synthetic fibres; rubber and plastic products; atomic fuel 2 586 2 541 2 185 2 368 2 190 2 612
Other non-etal anorganic products 3 488 2 935 2 564 3 049 2 558 2 244
Metals, m.constructions,m.products, apart from machinery and mechanisms 6 364 6 940 5 687 6 316 6 452 5 865
Other machines and mechanisms; office machines, computers;electric appliances and others
radio, TV, telecommunication installations and machines, hospital, precise,optical machines
watches, clocks
0 0 0 0 0 1 831
Means of transport,installations 1 117 2 575 2 676 2 811 2 961 1 820
Furniture; other industrial products 0 0 0 0 0 274
Secondary raw materials, waste 0 0 0 0 0 2 071
Shipments 0 0 0 0 0 154
Installation, transport material 0 0 0 0 0 671
Articles transported while movind households and offices; luggage transported separately
from passengers;vehicle transp.to be repaired; unmarketable goods mentioned nowhere else
0 0 0 0 0 0
Group articles; sort combinations transported together 0 0 0 0 0 656
For whatever reason unidentified articles that can not be included in groups 1-16
zařazeny do skupin 01 – 16
0 0 0 0 0 2 428
Other articles 8 241 5 926 4 128 4 561 4 788 464
Note: In accordance with the new EU legislation, reclassification of transported goods was made in 2008. To maintain
comparability of time lines, reverse calculation was performed.
Source: The transportation yearbook 2008
Statistics on waterway export indicates that the export of chemicals between the years 2006 –
2008 constitutes approximately a fifth of the total export volume transported by waterways (see the
chart below).
Chart 12 - The waterway export of the Czech Republic (thousands of tons)
2000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total
Chemical substances, prepararions, products
622 253 546 378 256 182
and synthetic fibres; rubber and plastic products;
atomic fuel
155 81 88 90 55 35
Source: The transportation yearbook 2008