This is the latest in a series of Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) reports that provide information on Australian sea freight movements, vessel activity, the use of coastal trading licences, and the size and composition of the Australian trading fleet. This report contains statistics on maritime freight and shipping activities in Australia from 2009–10 to 2018–19.

Import and export data up to 2020 has been made available through a visualisation on the National Freight Data Hub prototype website.

• Australian Sea Freight 2018–19 [PDF: 5.50 MB]