BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 18
By Sadraddin Aghjayev – Trend:
The freight traffic by all modes of transport in January 2022 in Azerbaijan grew, Trend reports citing the State Statistical Committee.
According to the committee, this figure amounted to 16 million tons, up by 3.3 percent on annual basis.
In the first month of this year, 53.9 percent of all cargo was transported by road, 35.2 percent - by pipeline, 7.7 percent - by rail, 2.8 percent - by sea, and 0.4 percent - by air.
During the reporting period, freight transportation in the private sector increased by 3.8 percent compared to January 2021. The share of this sector in the overall volume of cargo transportation was 76.2 percent.
Meanwhile, passenger transport in Azerbaijan exceeded 113.2 million people, which is growth of 64.8 percent year on year. Most of the passengers (86.5 percent) were transported by road, 13.1 percent – by metro, and 0.4 percent – by other modes of transport.
Cargo transportation by rail in January 2022 amounted to 1.2 million tons (a decrease of 1.2 percent on annual basis), and passenger transportation totaled almost 308,000 people (an increase by 2.4 times).
Besides, more than 445,600 tons of cargo were transported by sea, which is 1.7 percent more than in January 2021. The share of oil in the total volume of freight traffic was 42.7 percent.
The volume of cargo handled in the ports of Azerbaijan in the first month of this year exceeded 802,000 tons, of which 94.7 percent, or about 759,900 tons, were transit goods. As of February 1, 2022, the volume of remaining goods in the ports amounted to 17,600 tons.
In the period under review, 8.6 million tons of cargo were transported by road, which is 7.3 percent more on annual basis, and passenger carriage by this transport mode amounted to almost 97.9 million people (an increase of 42.9 percent).
Besides, 14.9 million passengers were transported by metro.
Over 118,300 passengers were transported by air in January 2022, which is 5.1 times more than in the same month of last year. Cargo transportation by air increased by 35.4 percent, up to 60,000 tons for the year.
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