DZS (Croatian Bureau of Statistics)

Spatial Statistics Directorate

Transport Statistics Department

Branimirova 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Country and NUTS codes

Territorial units like reporting country and regions for loading/unloading are coded according to NUTS classification for those units covered by NUTS Regulation and to ISO 3166 for the rest (e.g. territorial units outside EU). The used version of NUTS always corresponds to the version in use and no conversion to previous version is required. For instance, NUTS 2006 is used for 2008 to 2011 data, NUTS 2010 for 2012 to 2014 data, NUTS 2013 for 2015 to 2017, NUTS 2016 for 2018 to 2019 and NUTS 2021 for 2020 until next NUTS Regulation. 

The level of detail is either NUTS0 – for reporting country – or NUTS2 (basic regions, 4 digits) – for regions. When using ISO 3166 and 4-digits level coding is required (e.g. for regions outside EU), the two-digit ISO code followed by “ZZ” is used.

Goods classification

Prior to 2007, the types of goods reported as being transported by inland waterways were those defined by NST/R (Standard Goods for Transport Statistics). In 2007 only, the type of goods has been reported according either to the NST-2000 classification or to the NST/R classification. From 2008 onwards, only the NST2007 classification is valid as set out in Commission Regulation 1304/2007 amending Regulation 1365/2006 with respect to the establishment of NST2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes.

The minimum detail required is at the 2-digit level. Following a decision at the Working Group meeting held in October 2013, countries can provide their data (on voluntary basis) at the 3-digit level of the NST2007 classification

Dangerous goods are classified according to the European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (ADN). The classes are the following:

Class      Denomination

1             Explosive substances and articles
2             Gases
3             Flammable liquids
4.1          Flammable solids, self-reactive substances and solid desensitised explosives
4.2          Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
4.3          Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
5.1          Oxidising substances
5.2          Organic peroxides
6.1          Toxic substances
6.2          Infectious substances
7             Radioactive material
8             Corrosive substances
9             Miscellaneous dangerous substances and articles

Volume and performance of freight transport on EU inland waterway network on the basis of the "territoriality principle" which means that each country reports the loading, unloading and movements of goods that take place on its national territory, irrespective of nationality of vessels or place of first loading and final unloading of goods.

The definitions covering the main concepts used in this domain are:

Navigable inland waterway: A watercourse, no part of the sea, which by natural or man-made features is suitable for navigation, primarily by inland waterway vessels. This term covers navigable rivers, lakes, canals and estuaries.

Inland waterway vessel: A floating craft designed for the carriage of goods or public transport of passengers, which navigates predominantly in navigable inland waterways or in waters within, or closely adjacent to sheltered waters or areas where port regulations apply.

Nationality of the vessel: The country in which the vessel is registered.

Inland waterways transport: Any movement of goods using inland waterways vessels, which is undertaken wholly or partly in navigable inland waterways.

National inland waterways transport: Inland waterways transport between two ports of a national territory irrespective of the nationality of the vessel.

International inland waterways transport: Inland waterways transport between two ports located in different national territories.

Transit inland waterways transport: Inland waterways transport through a national territory between two ports both located in another national territory or national territories provided that in the total journey within the national territory there is no trans-shipment.

Inland movement: any movement of goods and/or passengers to and from inland ports connected by water routes which may be made navigable by one or more lock structures.

Types of vessels:

• Self-propelled barge. Any powered inland waterways freight vessel, other than self-propelled tanker barges.
• Barge not self-propelled. Any unpowered inland waterways freight vessel, other than not self-propelled tanker barges. This category includes towed, pushed and pushed-towed barges.
• Self-propelled tanker barge. A self-propelled barge intended for the transport of liquids or gases in fixed tanks.
• Tanker barge not self-propelled. A barge not self-propelled intended for the transport of liquids or gases in fixed tanks.
• Other goods carrying vessel. Any other known or unknown kind of inland waterways freight vessel intended for carrying goods not defined in the previous categories.
• Seagoing vessel. A vessel other than those, which navigate predominantly in navigable inland waterways or in waters within, or closely adjacent to, sheltered waters or areas where port regulations apply.

Containers: A freight container means an article of transport equipment:

1. of a permanent nature and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;

2. specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading;

3. fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly its transfer from one mode of transport to another;

4. so designed as to be easy to fill and empty;

5. having a length of 20 feet or more.

The size of containers is reported according to four categories:

1) 20 Foot ISO containers (length of 20 feet and width of 8 feet)

2) 40 Foot ISO containers (length of 40 feet and width of 8 feet)

3) ISO containers over 20 feet and under 40 feet in length

4) ISO containers over 40 feet long

Containers smaller than 20 feet are reported under Category 1.

Containers of unknown size are reported under Category 3.

Inland waterways accidents: specific, identifiable, unexpected, unusual and unintended external event caused by, or in connection with, the operation of an inland waterways vessel resulting in an inland waterways casualty or incident which occurs at a particular time and place, without apparent cause but with marked effect.

By definition suicides are excluded, as they are a deliberate act. Because of their importance, suicide statistics should be collected separately. Terrorist and criminal acts are excluded.

Inland waterways accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods: An inland waterways accident involving a vessel carrying any of the classes of dangerous goods defined by the ADN classification

Inland waterway traffic: any movement of an IWT vessel on a given IWT network. When a vessel is being carried on another vehicle, only the movement of the carrying vehicle (active mode) is taken into account.

Inland waterway journey: any movement of an IW vessel from a specified point of origin to a specified point of destination.

Tonne

Unit for measuring the weight of goods transport equivalent to 1000 kilograms.

The weight to be taken into consideration is the gross-gross weight of goods. The weight taken into consideration is equivalent to the total weight of the goods and packaging and the tare weight of equipment such as containers, swap bodies and pallets. When this tare-weight is excluded, the weight is gross weight.

Tonne-km

Unit for measuring the goods transport equivalent to one tonne of goods transported over a distance of one kilometre. For the purpose of reporting the tonne-km performance only the distance travelled on navigable inland waterways has to be taken into account.

TEU

Unit for measuring the container size equivalent to twenty feet unit.

TEU-km

Unit for measuring the goods transport by containers equivalent to one TEU transported over a distance of one kilometre. For the purpose of reporting the TEU-km performance only the distance travelled on navigable inland waterways has to be taken into account.

Vessel-km

Unit for measuring the vessel traffic equivalent to the movement of a vessel over a distance of one kilometre. For the purpose of reporting the vessel-km performance only the distance travelled on navigable inland waterways has to be taken into account.

 For more definitions and concepts, please consult the Reference Manual on Inland Waterway Transport Statistics, chapter 4.

The statistical units for inland waterways transport are harbour master’s offices of inland waterway ports. Data on transport refer to all movements of goods on vessels with domestic and foreign flags in inland waterways.

All arrived or departed vessels in the inland waterway transport on a national territory over one year, irrespective of their country of origins or place of first loading and final unloading.

Navigable inland waterways on national territory.

Data on are covered from 2005 onwards.

Not applicable

Data is disseminated using the following units of measure:

• 1000T: Thousands of tonnes
• MIO_TKM: Millions of tonnes/km (the transport of one tonne by inland waterways over one kilometre)
• TEU: Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (a unit of volume used in maritime transport statistics equivalent to a 20-foot ISO container )
• 1000 TEU_KM: Thousands of TEUs/Km (the transport of one twenty-foot equivalent unit over one kilometre )
• VES_MOV: Vessel movements (in number)
• VES_KM: Thousands of vessels/Km (the number of movement of an IWT vessel over one kilometre. The distance taken into account is the distance actually run. Movements of unladed vessels are included. In a convoy, each unit is counted as a vessel)

In the framework of Regulation (EU) 2018/974, Member States have to transmit their data as soon as possible and not later than five months after the end of the relevant period of observation.

For annual datasets (Mandatory: I1, II1, III; Voluntary: A2, A3, A4, A5, II2, Simplified: V1), the deadline is end of May of the year after the reference year (e.g. 2019 data to be provided by end of May 2020).

For quarterly datasets (IV1 and IV2), the deadlines are as follows:

1st  - August of Year Y

2nd  - November of Year Y

3rd  - February of Year Y+1

4th  - May of Year Y+1

European level:

• Regulation (EU) 2018/974 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways (codification)
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 425/2007 of 19 April 2007 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways

National level:

• Annual Implementation Plan of Statistical Activities of the Republic of Croatia
• Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No. 25/20)
• Programme of Statistical Activities of the Republic of Croatia 

Not applicable

European level:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

National level:

• Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No. 25/20)
• Ordinance on the access to confidential statistical data
• Ordinance on Conditions and Terms of Using Confidential Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes

Port-to-port data is considered confidential and is not disseminated.

Release calendar contains the review of publications planned to be issued in current year and by the end of May for next year, which depends on when the processing of a particular statistical survey can be finished and on whether it is feasible to make a particular kind of publication or not. Data on IWW transport statistics is published quarterly 45 days after the reference quarter.

Calendar of Statistical Data Issues 2022

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Croatian Bureau of Statistics disseminates statistics on IWW transport respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. Main results of IWW transport statistics are available free of charge to all users. At the release data on IWW transport statistics is available to all users at the same time.

IWW transport data are published quarterly 45 days after the reference quarter and annual publication of detailed data 8 months after the end of the reference year.

The First Release "Transport" – quarterly data

Aggregated data on the level of the Republic of Croatia on total tonnes carried and tonne kilometres.

The First Release "Transport"- quarterly data

PC-Axis Database, Transport and Communications, Inland Waterway Transport

The conditions under which certain users can access microdata are regulated by The Ordinance on the Conditions and Manner of Use of Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes.

Statistics in Line – quarterly data on traffic in IWW ports at the level of the Republic of Croatia.

Annual detailed data - goods transport by type of transport, type of goods, type of dangerous goods, type of cargo and annual data on traffic of goods by harbour masters offices of inland waterways.

Statistical Information – annual data on inland waterway transport of goods.

Croatia in Figures – annual data on inland waterway transport of goods.

Publications with corresponding methodological explanations available at www.dzs.hr, prepared for the data collection at national level.

There is also countries' dedicated section in the Reference Manual on Inland Waterway Transport Statistics (Part II National Methodologies) available.

The data on quality in CBS database of quality information (DBQI) is under development.

The main tool for the systematic quality assessment and quality management is the CBS database on quality information (DBQI). The DBQI has in first stage the Basic analytical tool for comparative analyses of quality indicators and later will contain Advanced analytical tool for comparative analyses of quality indicators.

An organisational structure and tools are in place to deal with quality. There are procedures in place to plan, monitor and improve the quality of the statistical processes. Procedures based on quality reporting are in place to internally monitor product quality. Results are analysed regularly and improving actions are undertaken, if needed (for example after obtaining annual summary results and mirror checks reports from Eurostat). There is a regular and thorough review of the key statistical outputs.

The key users of IWW transport statistics are National Accounts Department, Eurostat, DG MOVE, State institutions, enterprises, research and scientific community, journalists etc.

No survey on user satisfaction has been conducted.

The data collection on IWW transport statistics follows the provisions of the Regulation EU 2018/974. All variables in all datasets are provided including the majority of optional datasets.

Overall accuracy of the IWW transport statistics data is good. The processing with implemented logical and computational control, plausibility checks as well as checks done before transmitting data to Eurostat provides a high accuracy of the data.

Not applicable

Not applicable

All the statistics required by the provisions of the Regulation EU 2018/974 are transmitted to Eurostat in deadlines prescribed by Regulation.

For annual datasets (Mandatory: I1, II1, III; Voluntary: A2, A3, A4, A5, II2, Simplified: V1), the deadline is end of May of the year after the reference year (e.g. 2019 data to be provided by end of May 2020).

For quarterly datasets (IV1 and IV2), the deadlines are as follows:

1st  - August of Year Y

2nd  - November of Year Y

3rd  - February of Year Y+1

4th  - May of Year Y+1

Difficulties to respect deadline for data transmission:

It is feasible to deliver datasets within required deadlines.

All IWW transport datasets are transmitted to Eurostat within deadlines specified in the Regulation EU 2018/974

The geographical comparability of HR data with other member states is very good.

Comparable data harmonized with the statistical standards in the European Union are available since 2005.

Quarterly results on traffic of goods in inland waterway ports are partly comparable with the quarterly survey on transhipment of goods in inland waterway ports.

After generating datasets for transmission to Eurostat additional checks are made between annual and quarterly datasets.

The response burden is put on shipping agents and vessel captains who in the official procedures of the arrivals and departures of vessels in inland waterways traffic enter data in electronic reporting using the "Inland Navigation Information System" – ISUP. Detected errors are cleared manually by CBS and some errors must be cleared by contacting data suppliers. There is additional burden for CBS on the subject of transit data which is not possible to collect through current survey but with the collaboration from Hungarian statistical office.

Provisional figures are not published in this survey and therefore regular revisions are not planned.

Provisional figures are not published in this survey and therefore regular revisions are not planned. Unplanned revisions caused by events that could not be predicted and that are impossible to prevent (subsequent changes in data sources or subsequently identified errors in previously submitted data) are generally disseminated as soon as possible.

Data source is "Inland Navigation Information System" – ISUP.

CBS collects transit data the collaboration from Hungarian statistical office.

Ministry of Maritime sea, transport and infrastructure delivers data on accidents.

Monthly and annually

Monthly data on IWW transport of goods is transmitted to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics in electronic format from"Inland Navigation Information System" – ISUP.

Data on transit transport as well as data on transport accidents is delivered in electronic format.

In statistical data processing, the CBS implements control of the data coverage for the purpose of checking the completeness of the submitted data. Logical-computational controls, data consistency between data sets and controls of used codes are checked at the lowest level of received data.

Data processing on the Survey Processor software enables automated creation of quarterly and annual datasets from processed and validated IWW transport data. The structure of the datasets is according to Regulation EU 2018/974.

Not applicable for IWW transport data collection.

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