January 31 (SeeNews) - The volume of Moldova's combined railway, road, river and air freight traffic fell 1.6% to some 13.7 million tonnes in 2016, the country's statistical office said on Tuesday.
Calculated in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), traffic increased 2.5% to some 4.011 billion FTK in 2016, the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) said in a monthly report.
In the month of December, the volume of Moldova's freight traffic fell 1.3% on the month but was 12.8% higher on the year, at 1.2 million tonnes.
Details on Moldova's freight traffic follow:
|
2016 (in thousand tonnes) |
y/y pct change |
Total |
13,651 |
-1.6 |
-rail |
3,501.3 |
-15.8 |
-road |
10,013.7 |
+4.7 |
-river |
135.6 |
-10.8 |
-air |
0.5 |
-15.9 |
Source: BNS