BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 24. Kazakhstan’s revenue from passenger transportation via railways amounted to 7.4 billion tenge ($16.1 million) in March 2022, which is 49.2 percent more than in March 2021, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.
The revenue was 18.4 billion tenge ($40.03 million) over the period from January through March 2022, which is 51.5 percent more in comparison to last year.
The number of transported passengers amounted to 4.1 million people over three months of 2022, which is 33.7 percent more compared to the same period of last year (1.6 million passengers in March 2022, up by 42.1 percent).
The passenger turnover amounted to 3.3 billion passenger-kilometers (pkm) which compared to the same period of last year is an increase of 40 percent. March’s passenger turnover was 1.3 billion pkm (45 percent increase year-on-year).
Kazakhstan’s revenue from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway transportation amounted to 283.7 billion tenge ($614.2 million) over the period from January through March 2022, which is 14.1 percent more than during the same period of 2021.
Revenues from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway in March 2022 amounted to 98.5 billion tenge ($213.4 million), which is a 8.3-percent increase in comparison to the same month of 2021.
The volume of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage transported via railway during the reporting period amounted to 107.7 million tons, climbing by 9.5 percent compared to the same period of last year (36.9 million tons in March 2022, up by 8.4 percent year-on-year).
Cargo turnover amounted to 78.6 billion ton-kilometers increasing by 15.5 percent compared to last year (26.6 billion in March 2022, which is 10.5 percent more than during the same period of 2021).
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