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Wagonload
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Wagonload freight.
Europe
Wagonload is a diminishing sector of rail freight transport in the EU; the percentage of rail freight transported as wagonload diminished from 45% to 35% from the late 1980s to 90s. The relative extent of wagon load traffic within the Europe varies considerably; in the 1990s within the EU an EFTA wagonload traffic accounted for approximately 40% of rail freight, whilst in eastern European countries the percentage was higher, around 60%.