Transport, January 2025

A tenth more new passenger cars

At the road border crossings there was more passenger traffic and less goods traffic than last January. At the airport there were fewer passengers but more goods handled. At the port, the number of passengers as well as goods handled increased.

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A tenth more new passenger car registrations

In January 2025, about 9,800 road motor vehicles were registered for the first time in Slovenia or 1% fewer than the year before. Of these, over 7,800 passenger cars were registered for the first time, which was 1% more in the same comparison. Almost 5,000 were first registrations of new passenger cars or 10% more than in the first month of last year.

The largest number of passenger vehicles on the Šmarje - Sap section

Among selected counters on motorways, the section with the Šmarje - Sap counter was the busiest with passenger traffic this January. It counted 1.6 million passenger vehicles or 2% more than in the same month the year before. The largest goods traffic was recorded by the Drenov Grič counter near Vrhnika, which counted 0.4 million goods vehicles or 1% more year-on-year.

Less goods traffic at road border crossings 

Five million passenger vehicles entered or exited Slovenia via road border crossings, 1% more than in January of last year. On the other hand, there were 1.1 million goods vehicles or 7% fewer.

At the airport more goods, but fewer passengers

Almost 73,000 passengers departed from or arrived at Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, which was 3% fewer than last January. 1,000 tonnes of goods were handled, which was 11% more.

More passengers and goods handled in the port of Koper 

289 ships arrived in or departed from Slovenian ports, 5% more than in the first month of last year. Of them, 5 ships were for the transport of passengers on which 956 passengers were counted. 1.7 million tonnes of goods were handled in the port of Koper, which was 17% more.

Tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.
First registrations of new passenger cars, Slovenia
First registrations of new passenger cars, Slovenia
Selected data on transport, Slovenia
Jan 2025Jan 2025
Jan 2024 
number% change
Road transport
Road cross-border traffic of passenger vehicles (1,000)5,005.71.5
Road cross-border traffic of goods vehicles (1,000)1,140.3-6.6
Road motor vehicles, registered for the first time9,820-1.0
Passenger cars, registered for the first time7,8441.1
New passenger cars, registered for the first time4,9829.7
Maritime transport
Passengers9561,305.9
Goods (1,000 t)1,718.917.2
Vessels2895.1
Airport traffic
Passengers (1,000)72.6-3.4
Goods (1,000 t)110.9
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
At the time of this release some inconsistencies were detected in the administrative sources, which is why the data for January on urban and interurban public scheduled road passenger transport have not been published. Data on urban and interurban public scheduled road passenger transport will be published in the SiStat Database as soon as they are available.

Data on port traffic published by SURS may differ from the data published by ports in their reports. The differences are due to the use of different methodologies (different data sources, tare consideration, etc.).

Additional explanations are available in the methodological explanations on road public scheduled traffic, registered road vehicles, road traffic countingroad border crossingsroad goods transport, railway transport, air transport, and maritime transport and port traffic.
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