Freight Information Gathering System

The Ministry of Transport has developed the Freight Information Gathering System to provide an overview of freight movements around New Zealand, including containerised freight, rail freight, and bulk coastal freight.

The Freight Information Gathering System builds on information currently provided by Statistics New Zealand while making valuable new information on freight movements available for the first time.

Reports are released four times each year, and follow a consistent collection methodology to allow for tracking movements and trends across time.

Reports contain data from New Zealand’s ten largest container ports; Ports of Auckland , Port of Tauranga , Port Taranaki , Port of Napier , Port Nelson , CentrePort , Lyttelton Port of Christchurch , PrimePort Timaru , Port Otago and South Port .

Rail data has been provided by KiwiRail , and shows nationwide freight movements by region and by commodity, in both tonnes and tonne-kilometres.

Oil carried by coastal shipping is also included in the quarterly reports, and movements since 2009 are displayed to allow for the following of trends. 

For any FIGS enquiries please email figs@transport.govt.nz.

What has changed?

• 26/2/17 Container data republished - one week of September data went missing between the Q3 and Q4 reports
• 23/2/17 Rail - origin-destination time series tables added
• 20/2/17 Port container handling statistics 2016Q4 published
• 17/2/17 Rail 2016Q4 published
• 16/2/17 Container data 2016Q4 published

Rail

View the latest Freight Information for RaiL - updateD Feb 17 2017 

Trade

View the latest Freight Information for Trade

Containers

View the LATEST Freight Information for ContainerS - updateD Feb 16 2017