New figures from the Central Statistics Office show a slight increase in the amount of goods transported by road last year.
A total of 165.2 million tonnes of goods were transported by road, which marked an increase of 1% on the 2022 total, and an increase of 4% when compared with 2019, the CSO said.
Activity measured as weight by distance, or tonne-kilometres (tkm), reached 12.6 billion tkm last year, it added.
The total distance covered by road freight transport in 2023 was 1.8 billion kilometres, the same as that recorded in 2022.
Today's figures show that vehicles involved in the delivery of goods to road works or building sites carried 64,817 thousand tonnes in 2023 - the highest among all types of work carried out by goods vehicles.
