Ulaanbaatar
Revenue of rail and road transport increases
Economy
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In the
first half of 2019, 33.2 million tons of freight and 90.9 million passengers (double
counting) were carried in total by all type of transport. Compared to the same
period of previous year, the carried freight decreased by 0.5 percent and the number
of carried passengers decreased by 10.5 percent.
The revenue from all type of
transport reached MNT 846.4 billion, increased by 8.9 percent compared
to the same period of previous year.
In reference period, 20.0 million
tons of freight and 89.2 million passengers (double counting) were carried by
road transport. The revenue from road transport reached MNT 315.9 billion,
increased by 2.7 percent compared to the same period of previous year.
In reference period, 13.2 million
tons of freight and 1.2 million passengers (double counting) were carried by
railway transport. Compared to the same period of previous year, carried
freight increased by 8.0 percent, whereas the number of carried passengers
decreased by 3.2 percent.
In June 2019, 2.2 million tons of
freight and 249.5 thousand passengers transported through railway transport.
The carried freight increased by 0.7 percent and the number of passengers increased
by 17.5 percent compared to the previous month.
In the first half of 2019, the
revenue from railway transport reached MNT 335.6 billion, increased by 38.2
percent compared to the same period of previous year.
Source: www.nso.mn
