Cargo and passenger transportation by the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor in January-September, 2015
Cargo transportation in the part of Azerbaijan of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor was 39.3 million tons and cargo turnover 8313.1 million tons-km in January-September of the current year. 22.86 million tons or 58.2% of cargo was transported by automobile transport, 11.70 million tons or 29.8% by railway transport, 4.72 million tons or 12.0% by sea transport.
Volume of goods transported by the corridor decreased by 9.3% compared to the corresponding period of the last year. The main reason of it was decreasing (correspondingly 21.3 or 30.8%) in cargo transportation by railway and sea transport. During the indicated period volume of cargo transportation by automobile transport increased by 5.8%.
18.3% or 7.2 million tons of cargo transportation by corridor was transit cargo.
In January-September of the current year 247.5 million passengers were conveyed, passenger turnover was 5003.7 million passengers-km. Conveyance of passengers and passenger turnover increased by 7.8% compared to the corresponding period of the last year. Increasing on conveyance of passenger was by the account of automobile transport.
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