Cargo and passenger transportation by the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor in 2015
In 2015 cargo transportation in the Azerbaijan part of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor was 52.2 million tons and cargo turnover 10956.1 million tons-km. 30.65 million tons or 58.7% of cargo was transported by automobile transport, 15.52 million tons or 29.7 % by railway transport, 6.06 million tons or 11.6% by sea transport.
Compared to 2014 volume of goods transported by the corridor decreased by 10.2%. The main reason was decreasing (correspondingly 22.0 or 34.8%) of cargo transportation by railway and sea transport. During the indicated period volume of cargo transportation by automobile transport increased by 5.7%.
18.2% or 9.49 million tons of cargo transportation by corridor was transit cargo.
During the year 331.1 million passengers were transported and passenger turnover was 6628.5 million passengers-km. Compared to the previous year passenger transportation increased by 7.8% and passenger turnover by 7.5%. Increasing of passenger transportation was because of automobile transport.
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