Cargo and passenger transportation by the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor in January- August, 2016
Cargo transportation in Azerbaijan side of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor was 33237,9 thousand ton and cargo turnover 6420,1 million ton-km in January- August, 2016. 21297,0 thousand ton or 64.1 % of cargo was transported by automobile transport, 8950,2 thousand ton or 26,9 % by railway transport, 2990,7 thousand ton or 9,0 % by sea transport. In comparison with 2015 volume of goods transported by the corridor decreased by 6.6 %. The main reason was decreasing (correspondingly by 15.1 % or 30.5 %) of cargo transportation by railway and sea transport. During the indicated period, volume of cargo transportation by automobile transport increased by 2.7 %. 14.6% or 4855,5 thousand ton of cargo transportation by corridor was transit cargo. In January-August 2016 there were transported 229,5 million passengers; passenger turnover made 4596,0 million passengers-km. Compared to the corresponding period of 2015 passenger transportation increased by 2.2 % and passenger turnover by 1.5 %. Tel: 538-93-98