Azerbaijan: a 5% increase in freight transportation in January-February

20.03.2010 (00:47)

In January-February 2010, the volume of cargo transportation in Azerbaijan amounted to 28.2 million tons, a 4.8% growth as compared to the same period of the previous year, said the Republic’s State Statistics Service.

State transport enterprises carried 28% of the total freight transportation volume. The share of private companies was 72%.
In the first two months of 2010, railway transported 3.1 million tons of cargo (including transit), a 3.3% increase year-on-year. The Republic’s sea transport carried 1.9 million tons (a 4.5% growth). Transportation by road haulages increased by 13.2 million tons.
7.6 million tons of oil was carried via the country’s oil pipeline (a 2.7% increase). The rest volume of cargo was transported by mainline gas pipelines.
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