On the 3th of Oktober 2007, ‘Rail facts & figures’ was presented to Tony Berkeley, chairman of the Rail Freight Group in the UK. The report combines all the important statistic information about the use of rail freight. ‘Rail facts & figures 2007’ is an updated version of ‘railways in figures 2005’.

An insight has been given on the development on the transport performance, tonnage, destinations, the modal split and the rail infrastructure. Indirectly the report proofs the importance of rail freight for the Dutch economy. This report has been made in cooperation with the help of the CBS (Bureau of Statistics in The Netherlands), AVV (Transport Research Centre), ProRail (Dutch Rail Infrastructure Manager), Port of Rotterdam and other companies which have a connection within the rail sector.