Cargo, Estonia, Railways, Transport

Month over month, an increase of 3.6% was registered, data available from Statistics Estonia shows. 

Despite the reduction in the total weight of cargoes carried by rail, the freight turnover of rail transport increased by 5.3% year on year to roughly 148 million ton-kilometers in August. The rate of increase compared to July was 4.4%.

Carriage of passengers by rail declined 19% on year to 564,000 boardings, whereas in comparison with July an increase of 11% was registered.

Measured in passenger-kilometers, passenger transportation decreased 19% on year to 27.6 million passenger-kilometers. In month-to-month comparison an increase of 1.1% took place.

Birgitta Ojamaa, analyst at Statistics Estonia, said in a press release that while carriage of passengers and freight by rail has not yet reached last year's levels, the situation is nevertheless improving. 

During the three summer months, altogether 1.5 million boardings were registered on trains and 4 million tons of freight was carried by rail.

By month, both the number of passengers and the amount of freight were smallest in June, respectively 466,000 boardings and 1.3 million tons.