Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Beförderungsleistung
English translation:
goods moved
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Lancashireman
Sep 29, 2023 18:59
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German term
United Kingdom
Beförderungsleistung
German to English
Bus/Financial
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
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...
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...
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | Goods moved |
Björn Vrooman
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| 4 +6 | transport performance |
Charles Rose
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| 3 | freight carrying capacity; (AUT) forwarding service |
Adrian MM.
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| 4 -1 | transport service |
Johannes Gleim
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Proposed translations
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6 days
Selected
Goods moved
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...
…"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...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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."
29 mins
Adrian MM.
Austria
Austria
Native in English
Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
4
freight carrying capacity; (AUT) forwarding service
'...coined by these people' - as an original (?) alternative to Transportleistung. Well, it means something else specifically in Austrian Turnover Tax / VAT terms.
Example sentence:
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
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Andrew Bramhall
: What a shame you ruined a perfectly correct answer by posting an irrelevant second answer for purely pedantic reasons.
1 hr
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+6
10 hrs
Charles Rose
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Works in field
United Kingdom
Technical, Medical, Legal Translator
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English
transport performance
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...
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:
Quantity of goods carried, transport performance (freight transport by road): Germany, years, transport categories
Goods carried, transport performance (freight transport by rail): Germany, years
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
writeaway
3 hrs
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| agree |
Bourth
: It's a very Euro-German thing but is given as 'transport performance' in EU, OECD, etc. sites
12 hrs
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| agree |
Andrew Bramhall
: Tend to agree;
2 days 4 hrs
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| agree |
Kim Metzger
2 days 15 hrs
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| agree |
Steffen Walter
: Yes, but "goods carried/moved" would be more idiomatic. See Björn's discussion entries.
3 days 11 hrs
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| agree |
Conor Murphy
: Yes, it's definitely 'transport performance' .... https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/tran_hv_ms_e...
4 days
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-1
3 days 50 mins
Johannes Gleim
Native in German
40 years Engineer, 20 years translations
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, French to German, and 6 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
171
transport service
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)
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)
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Steffen Walter
: "Service" passt nicht - siehe Definition im Kontext: "... die als Produkt der Transportmenge und der Beförderungsreichweite in Tonnenkilometer (t-km) angegeben wird.".
20 hrs
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Discussion
As for Eurospeak, we should all blame the Irish, I guess:
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Eurish
Enjoy your weekend!
Could you please enter goods moved as an official answer so that I can close this question.
Following prior studies, road freight activity is measured in ton-kilometers (tkm), that is, tons of goods moved to the distances
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1781064
https://www.statista.com/statistics/625787/uk-goods-moved-by...
"Global capacity, measured in available cargo tonne-kilometers (ACTKs), shrank by 22.6% in October ( 24.8% for international operations) compared to the previous year..."
https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/news/member-news/iata-reports-co...
But, hah, I think I just found at least the gov.uk version:
"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...
Does that help?