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Passenger transportation via railway transport decreases by 21%

25 September 2012 08:29 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. 15.2 mln tons of cargo were transported via Azerbaijanâ€™s railway transport during 8 months of 2012, up 7.5% from a year earlier.

Averagely 683 wagons were entrained, 550 â€“ detrained per day. 27,200 tons of entraining works were conducted for North direction, 6,400 tons â€“ for West direction and 4,100 tons for South direction.

At the same time, cargo turnover decreased by 7.3% to 5,462.1 mln ton/km.

At the same time, 1,865,200 passengers were transported via railway transport, down 21.4% in comparison to a year earlier. Passenger turnover dropped 12.4% to 397.2 mln pas/km.