The level of water transhipment at Austrian ports and landing stages (excluding 242,698 tonnes of gravel from maintenance and re-naturalisation dredgings) increased to slightly more than 9.5 million tonnes in 2007, which is equivalent to a rise of 17.6% compared to the previous year. Particularly the private port of the steel manufacturer voestalpine in Linz recorded a very positive result: with an increase of 695,000 tonnes to 4 million tonnes the port has achieved the largest growth in water transhipment volumes.

While the private port of voestalpine in Linz showed the largest absolute growth in volume in 2007, the port of Enns-Ennsdorf was one of the winners in terms of percentage: with +13.4% it ranks first among the Austrian ports. With +12.7% the port of Vienna achieved the second-largest increase. A slight reduction in water transhipment was recorded by the public port of Linz with -2,3%. Mierka Donauhafen Krems was able to accomplish significant growth in all product groups, and it was merely due to the heavily declining level of gravel transhipment that the port recorded a decrease of 15.1%.

The water transhipment volume of the other Austrian ports and landing stages (Korneuburg, Ybbs, Pischelsdorf, Aschach and Pöchlarn) totalled 1.1 million tonnes of goods in 2007.