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Freight carried by Estonian rail down 15.3% in September y-o-y

BC, Tallinn, 02.11.2020.Print version
Carriage of freight by rail in Estonia dropped by 15.3% year on year to 1.4 million tons in September 2020, reports LETA/BNS.

Month over month, a reduction by 1.8% was registered, data available from Statistics Estonia shows. 


The freight turnover of rail transport decreased 15.8% year on year to 144.7 million ton-kilometers in September. The rate of reduction compared to August was 3.9%.


Carriage of passengers by rail declined 18.3% on year to 601,000 boardings, whereas in comparison with August an increase of 6.6% was registered.


Measured in passenger-kilometers, passenger transportation decreased 20.4% on year to 24.8 million passenger-kilometers. In month-to-month comparison a reduction of 10.3% took place.






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