This article presents statistics on intermodal freight transport in the European Union and the EFTA countries. The statistics contain a set of indicators developed by Eurostat on goods transported in containers and other intermodal transport units (ITUs). Recent trends in the data clearly illustrate the importance and growing role of intermodal transport in Europe. The main focus is on the increasing share of unitisation in different modes of transport, in other words the share of goods that are transported containers and other intermodal transport units (ITUs) such as swap bodies, trailers and semi-trailers. The article also covers the modal shift potential of long distance road transport of containers, in line with the strategy to shift 30 % of transport over distances of 300 kilometres or more from road to transport modes with lower CO2 emissions. These indicators study the share of such long distance transport in the total road transport of containers.