For the compilation of the balance of payments’ item “International merchandise transport”, the Bank of Italy has conducted since 1998 a survey aimed at the estimation of freight costs and carriers’ market shares by nationality of residence; the data are also used to correct modal foreign trade and to estimate the activity of Italian ship managers for transport carried out entirely abroad. As of July 2017 new yearly report is available containing the main results of the Survey on International Merchandise Transport.
Report
Summary of sample survey results up to 2015
- Italy's International freight transport - 2015pdf 652.3 KB Publish date::06 February 2017
Analysis and methodology
- Survey on International Merchandise Transport - Methodological Notespdf 2.3 MB Publish date::28 July 2017
- No. 223 - The survey on international merchandise transport of Italy: methods and results by Enrico Pastori, Miriam Tagliavia, Enrico Tosti, Simonetta Zappa Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional papers) Publish date::01 September 2014
Conferences
- 10th World Conference on transport researchIstanbul, 4-8 July 2004 Other Conference Proceedings Publish date::09 July 2004