FREIGHT HAULAGE IN ARMENIA UP SLIGHTLY IN 9 MTHS
Interfax
Nov 3 2009
Russia
Freight haulage in Armenia rose 0.3% year-on-year in the first nine
months of 2009 to 6.757 million tonnes, the National Statistics
Service said.
Rail freight dropped 4.6% to 1.931 million tonnes while road freight
increased 10% to 3.978 million tonnes. Air freight decreased 21%
to 6,400 tonnes.
Armenian’s trunk pipeline system supplied 840,900 tonnes of natural
gas, a year-on-year decrease of 22.7%.
Overall freight turnover fell 15.3% to 1.794 billion tonne- kilometers.
Passenger transport was up 1.6% year-on-year to 182.676 million
persons. Trains carried 555,700 passengers, 37.7% more year-on-year.
Automobile transport carried 164.292 million passengers, 1.5% more,
and air transport carried 1.104 million, down 1.9%. Electric transport
carried 16.729 million passengers, 1.9% more than a year earlier.
Passenger turnover fell 0.5% to 2.832 billion passenger-kilometers.