Revenue of rail and air transports increases respectively

Economy
unurzul@montsame.mn
2018-12-12 17:53:35

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ In the first 11 months of 2018, 23.4 million tonnes of freight and 2.4 million passengers (double counting) were carried by railway transport. Compared to the same period of previous year, the volume of carried freight increased by 2.8 million tonnes (13.5 percent), whereas the number of carried passengers decreased by 78.2

thousand passengers (3.2 percent).

In November 2018, 2.3 million tonnes of freight and 194.4 thousand passengers transported by railway transport. The freight volume decreased by 136.4 thousand tonnes (5.7 percent), and the number of passengers decreased by 21.2 thousand (9.9 percent) compared to the previous month.

In the first 11 months of 2018, 39.7 percent of the total carried freight through railway was domestic freight, 36.0 percent was export freight, 11.1 percent was import freight and 13.2 percent was transit freight. Export and import freights increased by 1.0 points and 0.9 points, while domestic freight and transit freight decreased by 1.7 points and 0.3 points from the same period of the previous year respectively.

In the first 11 months of 2018, the revenue from railway transport reached MNT 561.2 billion, increased by MNT 80.6 billion (16.8 percent) compared to the same period of previous year. 

In the first 11 months of 2018, 2.9 thousand tonnes of freight and 867.5 thousand passengers (double counting) transported by air transport. The freight volume increased by 73.8 tonnes (2.6 percent) and the number of carried passengers increased by 97.6 thousand (12.7 percent) compared to the same period of previous year. In November 2018, 240.5 tonnes of freight and 71.1 thousand persons transported by air transport. The freight volume decreased by 63.4 tonnes (20.9 percent), and the number of carried passengers decreased 7.2 by thousand (9.2 percent) from the previous month.

In the first 11 months of 2018, the total of domestic passengers travelled by air transport reached 325.5 thousand (37.5 percent) showing a rise of 36.6 thousand passengers (12.7 percent) from the same period of previous year. The number of international passengers reached 542.0 thousand (62.5 percent), reflecting an increase of 61.0 thousand passengers (12.7 percent) compared with the same period of previous year.

The revenue from air transport reached MNT 395.9 billion, increased by MNT 37.9 billion (10.6 percent) compared to the same period of previous year. In November 2018, revenue from air transport reached MNT 24.0 billion, decreased by MNT 2.1 billion (8.0 percent) compared to the previous month.