Freight and passengers statistics

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In the first nine months of this year, 30.7 million freight and 258.8 million passengers (at duplicated counting) were carried by all types of transport. The freight carried decreased 0.5 million tons or 1.7%, whereas the passengers number increased 41.5 million people or 19.1% against the previous year. Some 15 thousand and half tons of freight and 2,898.8 thousand passengers (at duplicated counting) were carried by the railway transport. Compared to same period of the previous year, the volume of the freight rose by 410.0 thousand tons or 2.7%, the number of the passengers decreased 146.2 thousand people or 4.8%. The revenue from railway transport decreased 220.1 million MNT or 0.1% down to 313.5 billion in the first nine months of 2013 against 2012. Some 3,117.4 tons freight and 600.7 thousand passengers were carried by air transport. Againts the same period of the previous year, the volume of the freight increased by 56.0 tons or 1.8%, the number of the passengers rose by 9.8 thousand people or 1.7%. The revenue from air transport increased MNT 14.6 billion or 9.2% to MNT 173.2 billion.