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Volume of Azerbaijan's 1Q2021 railway cargo traffic revealed

Transport Materials 16 April 2021 16:36 (UTC +04:00)
Volume of Azerbaijan's 1Q2021 railway cargo traffic revealed

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 16

By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:

Some 3.8 million tons of cargo and 476,200 passengers have been transported by railways in Azerbaijan from January through March 2021, Trend reports referring to the State Statistical Committee.

According to the committee, 8.1 percent of all cargo transportation accounted for the share of the railway. Totally, 30.3 million tons of cargo were transported by all types of transport over the reporting period.

Thus, cargo transportation by railways in the first quarter of 2021 grew by 7.2 percent, while passenger transportation dropped by 56 percent compared to the same period of 2020.

On average, 389 railway cars were unloaded and 346 loaded per day. The loading operations were carried out in an average volume of 18,800 tons in the northern direction of the Azerbaijani railways, 3,200 tons in the western direction, and 1,000 tons - in the southern direction.

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