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Passenger transportation via railways plummets in Kazakhstan amid COVID-19

Transport Materials 15 December 2020 11:50 (UTC +04:00)
Passenger transportation via railways plummets in Kazakhstan amid COVID-19

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.15

By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:

Kazakhstan’s revenue from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway transportation amounted to 851.9 billion tenge ($2.02 billion) over 11 months of 2020, which is 5.4 percent more than during the same period of 2019, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.

Revenues from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway in Nov. 2020 amounted to 84.8 billion tenge ($201.9 million), which is a 2.3-percent increase in comparison to the same month of 2019.

The volume of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage transported via railway during the reporting period amounted to 376.5 million tons, climbing 1.3 percent compared to the same period of last year (36.3 million tons in Nov. 2020, up by 1.1 percent year-on-year).

Cargo turnover amounted to 274.7 billion ton-kilometers rising by 4.5 percent in comparison to last year (26.9 billion in Nov. 2020, an increase of 3.7 percent).

In turn, Kazakhstan’s revenue from passenger transportation amounted to 41.4 billion tenge ($98.6 million) over 11 months of 2020, which is a 58.8 percent slump in comparison to last year. November’s revenue from passenger transportation was 3.5 billion tenge ($8.3 million), which is 62 percent less than in Nov. 2019.

The number of transported passengers amounted to 10.3 million people, which is a 48.1 percent decline compared to the same period of last year (996,110 passengers in Nov. 2020, down by 42.9 percent).

The passenger turnover amounted to 7.9 billion passenger-kilometers (pkm) which compared to the same period of last year is a decrease of 51.4 percent. November’s passenger turnover was 763 million pkm (45.1 percent decrease year-on-year).

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