BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 18. Kazakhstan’s revenue from passenger transportation via railways amounted to 10.4 billion tenge ($21.9 million) in July 2022, which is 52.9 percent more than in July 2021, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.
The revenue was 52.8 billion tenge ($110.9 million) over the period from January through July 2022, which is 20.2 percent more in comparison to last year.
The number of transported passengers amounted to 11.09 million people over seven months of 2022, which is 40.6 percent more compared to the same period of last year (2.06 million passengers in July 2022, up by 34.6 percent).
The passenger turnover amounted to 9.3 billion passenger-kilometers (pkm) which compared to the same period of last year is an increase of 40.2 percent. July’s passenger turnover was 1.8 billion pkm (30.2 percent increase year-on-year).
Kazakhstan’s revenue from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway transportation amounted to 679.1 billion tenge ($1.4 billion) over the period from January through July 2022, which is 8.9 percent more than during the same period of 2021.
Revenues from the transportation of cargo, luggage, and cargo luggage via railway in July 2022 amounted to 108.8 billion tenge ($228.5 million), which is 16.1-percent more 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 239.2 million tons, climbing by 0.2 percent compared to the same period of last year (33.1 million tons in July 2022, down by 4.7 percent year-on-year).
Cargo turnover amounted to 180.4 billion ton-kilometers increasing by 5.7 percent compared to last year (26.4 billion in July 2022, which is 4.6 percent more than during the same period of 2021).
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