By 2019, China and Russia were the countries with the highest freight demand worldwide, at over and billion tonne-kilometers respectively. They were only surpassed by the total demand for all OECD member states, which reached iver billion tonne-kilometers and dwarfed all other markets. By contrast European demand for freight was the smallest, at under *** billion tonne-kilometers, despite Europe boasting a large railway network.
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