September 22 (SeeNews) - The volume of Moldova's railway, road and air freight traffic in the first eight months of 2009 fell by an annual 60.6% to 4.7 million tonnes, the country's statistics bureau said on Tuesday.
Calculated in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), traffic in January-August decreased by 53% on the year to 1.6 billion FTK.
Details of Moldova's freight traffic follow:
|
|
Jan-Aug'09 (mln tonnes) |
y/y pct change |
| Total |
4.698 |
-60.6 |
| -rail |
2.696 |
-67.1 |
| -road |
1.889 |
-48.0 |
| -river |
0.112 |
+8.2 |
| -air |
0.0005 |
-2.5 |