In 2007, the general conditions for navigation on the Danube were quite favourable. On the one hand there were no transport impediments or disruptions caused by high water and ice and on the other hand the Danube’s favourable and relatively consistent flow conditions limited the time of low-water levels to only a few days. These favourable conditions are reflected in the volume of goods transported in this year. Thus, in 2007 about 12.1 million tonnes of goods were carried on the Austrian part of the Danube, which is equivalent to an increase of 11.6% over the previous year, in which navigation was faced with a number of difficulties. Following 2002 with 12.3 million tonnes, this is the second-best result achieved on the Austrian part of the Danube in a time series from 1992 to 2007. Overall transport performance on the Austrian Danube increased by 7.4% to 2.6 billion tonne kilometres.  

In the import sector, the transport volume rose by remarkable 30.1% to 6.3 million tonnes compared to 2006, whereby nearly 72% of the tonnage entered Austria from the east. The volume of export goods carried on the Danube increased by 7.4% to 1.5 million tonnes compared to the previous year. 56% of the exported goods crossed the eastern border and 44% crossed the western border of the Danube corridor. However, the volume of transit transport decreased by 3.8% to 3.3 million tonnes. This is an extrapolated figure, since Statistics Austria uses an estimation model to compensate for the existing undercoverage of transit transport.

Compared to the previous year, nearly all the commodity groups most frequently transported on the Danube recorded an increase in volume. In the group of "ores and metal waste“, where 99.7% of the import volume was moved nearly exclusively to the port of voestalpine Linz, the transported volume amounted to 3.4 million tonnes of goods, which is equivalent to an increase of 20.9% over 2006. The 2.4 million tonnes of transported petroleum products constitute an increase of 41.3%. With 1.4 million tonnes (+8.7% compared to 2006), agricultural and forestry products accounted for the third-largest transport volume on the Austrian Danube. The volume of metal products transported on the Austrian Danube amounted to 1.3 million tonnes (+3.5% over 2006).