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Azerbaijan Railways CJSC releases 2020 cargo movement data

Transport Materials 23 December 2020 12:16 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC releases 2020 cargo movement data

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 23

Trend:

Azerbaijan Railways CJSC transported nearly 13.3 million tons of cargo in 2020, a source in the company told Trend.

According to the source, 7.8 percent of the total volume of cargo transportation by all types of vehicles fell on the share of cargo transportation by rail.

As the company said, 2,608 tons of the total volume fell on permanent cargo transportation.

In the past 11 months of this year, 13.29 million tons of cargo were transported. Of these, over 4.66 million tons fell on imports, 3.69 million tons of cargo were transported in transit, and 2.32 million tons of cargo were exported, the source noted.

On an annualized basis, freight traffic decreased by 4.2 percent.

To remind, from January through November 2020, about 300,000 passengers used the railway transport in Azerbaijan. Over the same period last year, over 900,000 passengers were transported within the country.

The annual decrease in passenger traffic was 46.7 percent.

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