Activity of transport on "Silk way"? in the first quarter of 2012
In the first quarter of the current year 13.9 million tons or more than 4.3% of cargo, 64.7 million persons or more than 7.8% of passengers were transported in Azerbaijan side of the "Silk way"? transport corridor. 44.5% of cargo was share of automobile, 35.3% - railway, 20.2% - sea transport, 6.8% growth was recorded in automobile transport and 4.2% in railway transport.
30.6% or 4.3 million tons of cargo transported by corridor were transit cargo and the volume of these cargo increased by 81.3 thousand tons or 1.9% compared to January-March of previous year.
107.6 million manat income were achieved from cargo transportation, 20.2 million manat from passenger transportation and respectively increased by 24.5% and 13.0% compared to the same period of last year.