Beförderungsleistung

English translation: goods moved

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German term or phrase:	Beförderungsleistung
English translation:	goods moved
Entered by:	Lancashireman

18:59 Sep 29, 2023

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping

German term or phrase: Beförderungsleistung

Als einheitliche Ausgangsgröße dient im Transportsektor die Beförderungsleistung, die als Produkt der Transportmenge und der Beförderungsreichweite in Tonnenkilometer (t-km) angegeben wird.

The term is defined as tonne kilometres. Is there an industry equivalent in EN of ‘Beförderungsleistung’ which avoids the need for a literal translation or for omitting the noun itself and skirting around the issue? It seems to have been coined by these people:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Trans...

Lancashireman KudoZ activity Questions: 92 (none open) Answers: 4436 United Kingdom
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Goods moved

Explanation:
The issue with this seemingly bog-standard German compound word is that the second noun of the pair is highly context dependent. If it’s Leistung as in…
…"was geleistet werden kann," it’s most likely capacity.
…"was geleistet wurde," it’s (goods) moved or carried, as the "Leistung" has already been "erbracht." We're talking about statistics that show a "beförderte Menge."

Someone might object and say you can use "Beförderung(sleistung)" for both "passengers and goods carried."

That’s true. However, you wrote that the unit of measure in this case is tonne kilometres, which is used only for goods, of course.

When talking about people, it’d be "Personenkilometer" or "passenger kilometres":
"Personenkilometer (oder Passagierkilometer; Abkürzung: Pkm) ist im Personenverkehr eine betriebswirtschaftliche Kennzahl für die Transportleistung beim Transport von Passagieren oder Personen. Pendant im Güterverkehr sind die Tonnenkilometer (tkm)."
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personenkilometer

Here’s "goods moved" on Statista:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/625758/uk-goods-moved-by...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/625787/uk-goods-moved-by...

And here’s the UK government’s definition of "goods moved," pretty much an exact match to the definition you quoted, I believe:
"Goods moved - the weight of goods carried, multiplied by the distance hauled, measured in tonne kilometres. This is a measure of overall road freight activity, taking account of both the amount of goods transported and the distance travelled."
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/road-freight-statis...

You can find similar definitions on websites put up by the US government, although the vocab used is (as so often) a bit different; in America, it’s "freight moved," with "ton-miles" being the preferred unit of measure, as far as I can tell:
https://www.bts.gov/archive/data_and_statistics/by_subject/f...

Though "freight moved" is not unheard of in the UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/transport-statistic...

Selected response from:

Björn Vrooman
Local time: 13:47

Grading comment

Thank you for returning to enter this translation. Infinitely preferable to the EUrish version which appears to be a literal translation of the two noun elements making up this compound.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +6

transport performance

Charles Rose

3 +1

Goods moved

Björn Vrooman

freight carrying capacity; (AUT) forwarding service

Adrian MM.

4 -1

transport service

Johannes Gleim

Discussion entries: 5

Answers

29 mins confidence:

freight carrying capacity; (AUT) forwarding service

Explanation:
'...coined by these people' - as an original (?) alternative to Transportleistung. Well, it means something else specifically in Austrian Turnover Tax / VAT terms.

Example sentence(s):

Available Freight Tonne Kilometres is the measure of a flight's freight carrying capacity. It is calculated by multiplying the number of tonne of freight on an aircraft by the distance travelled in kilometres.
IATE: de bestellte Transportleistung COM en contracted carrying capacity COM

Reference: http://www.pwc.at/de/publikationen/umsatzsteuer/vat-guide-de...

Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

10 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

transport performance

Explanation:
i) Please note my reply here is copyright by the German Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden 2023. from what I can see.

ii) Please also note, the Austrian person who responded also gave a highly detailed response, but for tax return purposes, seems very accurate for tax return purposes which may or may not be what you wish this for. Response I gave is from table of goods (freight) movements in Germany, national statistics provided year on year by a government agency in Germany.

iii) https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?operation=abr...

Example sentence(s):

Quantity of goods carried, transport performance (freight transport by road): Germany, years, transport categories
Goods carried, transport performance (freight transport by rail): Germany, years

https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?language=en&sequenz=statistikTabellen&selectionname=46231#abreadcrumb
https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?operation=abruftabelleBearbeiten&levelindex=1&levelid=1696049229897&auswahloperation=abruftab

Charles Rose
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

3 days 50 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

transport service

Explanation:
Der Rest der Gruppe hat in diesem Fall keinen Anspruch auf diese Beförderungsleistung.
The rest of the group is not entitled to this transport service.
Unternimmt der Käufer um den Liefertermin zu beschleunigen einen Abholversuch während der Beförderungsleistung, so geschieht dies zu seinen Kosten.
If the buyer wants to accelerate the delivery and attempts a pick-up during the transport service, this happens on her/his account.
Höhere Gewalt und deren Folgen befreien AD von der Beförderungsleistung.
Force majeure and its consequences free AD from providing transport service.
https://context.reverso.net/übersetzung/deutsch-englisch/Bef...

MA30
DE umgestellte Beförderungsleistung nf, umgestelltes Angebot nn
IT servizio sostituito nm
FR service transféré nm
EN transferred service
(Unilex/UIC Raillexic 5.0)

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 171

6 days confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Goods moved

Björn Vrooman
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thank you for returning to enter this translation. Infinitely preferable to the EUrish version which appears to be a literal translation of the two noun elements making up this compound.

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