Cargo and passenger transportation by the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor in January-February, 2016
Cargo transportation in Azerbaijan side of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor was 7826.4 thousand ton and cargo turnover 1509.4 million ton-km in January-February, 2016. 5040.9 thousand ton or 64.4% of cargo was transported by automobile transport, 2063.2 thousand ton or 26.4 % by railway transport, 722.3 thousand ton or 9.2% by sea transport.
In comparison with 2015 volume of goods transported by the corridor decreased by 13.8%. The main reason was decreasing (correspondingly 26.8% or 46.5%) of cargo transportation by railway and sea transport. During the indicated period volume of cargo transportation by automobile transport increased by 2.7%.
15.0% or 1172.7 million ton of cargo transportation by corridor was transit cargo.
54.9 million passengers were transported and passenger turnover was 1114.4 million passengers-km in January-February, 2016. Compared to the corresponding period of 2015 passenger transportation increased by 2.2% and passenger turnover by 1.1%.
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