Significant growth in passenger transport continued at the beginning of this year, with the number of transported passengers going up by 27.3 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) to 54.6 million in January 2023, the Statistics Office reported last week. All forms of public transport posted increases, while cargo transport fell by 7 percent y-o-y. The number of passengers on both road and public city transport went up by more than one quarter in January. The figure for rail transport rose by 36.9 percent, but it only made up 10 percent of the total.
Meanwhile, the volume of cargo transport reached 16.4 million tonnes in January, down by 7 percent y-o-y. "The volume of transported cargo continued to drop for the seventh consecutive month," said the Statistics Office. This can mainly be ascribed to road transport, which made up two thirds of overall cargo transport, but fell by 5 percent y-o-y. Rail cargo transport didn't show a significant y-o-y change in January, declining by a mere 0.5 percent. However, this was the smallest decrease seen over the past year.
Output in cargo transport in tonne-kilometres (tkm), which takes transport distance into account, increased by 1.9 percent y-o-y to 3.6 billion tkm in January 2023.
Source: TASR
