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Domestic freight carried, 2006–7

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Road, rail or sea – which carried the most freight in the year to June 2007? In terms of freight within New Zealand, road transport won by a large margin – whether calculated in terms of weight carried overall, or weight carried per kilometre.

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Source: Richard Paling Consulting, National freight demands study 2008. Wellington: Ministry of Transport, New Zealand Transport Agency and Ministry for Economic Development, 2008, p. 2

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Matthew Wright and Megan Cook, Freight and warehousing – Deregulation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/23467/domestic-freight-carried-2006-7 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matthew Wright and Megan Cook, published 4 March 2010.