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Transport by rail reduced by 15.8%, by road – by 3.8%.

41.5 mln tons of freights were carried in transport by rail, a decrease of 15.8% compared to 2018. National freights by rail rose to 1.7 mln tonnes – 25.2% more. In international traffic the volume of freights carried by rail reduced by 8.1 mill. tonnes or 16.9 %. Freight traffic by rail to/from ports of Latvia fell by 19.7 %, their share in international traffic comprised 79.5%.

73.8 mln tons of freights were carried in transport by road, a decrease of 3.8 % compared to 2018. 55.8 mln tons of national freights were carried, a drop of 4.7%. International freights accounted for 18 mln tonnes – 1% less, of which export freight transport rose by 0.7%, but import freight transport and cross-trade and cabotage in international road freights fell by 1.5%.

2.7 mln tons of oil products were transported by the oil products pipeline, a growth of 1.9%.

Freight traffic by land and pipeline transport

(million tonnes)

Volume of freights carried at ports has reduced

In 2019, freight turnover at Riga port was 32.8 mln tonnes, 10.1% less than in 2018, 20.5 mln tonnes or 0.6% more – at Ventspils port, 7.3 mln tonnes or 2.7 % less – at Liepāja port, but 1.8 mln tonnes or 2.8% less – at minor ports.

There were 52.9 mln tonnes of freights shipped from ports, which was 7.3% less than a year before. Volume of main freights shipped reduced. 31.9% of freights loaded onto ships were comprised by coal. Its volume went down by 4 mln tonnes (19%). Oil products comprised one fifth (21.1%) of freights shipped, which reduced by 0.8 mln tonnes or 6.9 %. The volume of timber loaded decreased by 14.5%, of freights in containers – by 2.8%, of roll on/roll off – by 3.8%, of mineral fertilisers – by 11.4%, while shipping of grain and grain products rose by 14.4%.

9.5 mln tonnes of freight were unloaded at ports; the volume rose by 4%. The volume of unloaded oil products grew by 19.4%. Also, the volume of loaded freights in containers and roll on/ roll off increased slightly – by 0.5% and 0.6%, respectively.

Riga International Airport received and shipped 27.2 thousand tonnes of cargo, which was 3.6% more than a year ago.

Slight drop remained in the number of passengers carried by land transport

In 2019, 239.2 mln passengers were carried by land passenger transport, which was 1.3% less than in 2018.

The number of passengers carried by rail transport increased by 2.1%, the number of passengers carried by regular bus traffic lines remained at the level of the previous year (decrease of 0.4%), but the number of passengers carried by urban electrified transport reduced by 3.5%.

The number of passengers arrived at and departed from Latvian ports with ferries accounted for 1071.7 thousand, which is 0.8% more than in 2018.

There were 69.2 thousand passengers who arrived at the Riga Passenger Terminal via cruise ships – 7.5% less than in 2018.

In 2019, 7.8 mln passengers arrived at and departed from the Riga International Airport, which is 10.5% more than in 2018. The largest passenger turnover at the Riga International Airport was with German airports – 1 mln passengers or increase of 5.9%, Russian airports – 0.9 mln passengers or rise of 18.4% and British airports – 0.8 mln passengers or drop of 0.3%.