August 16 (SeeNews) - The volume of Moldova's combined railway, road, river and air freight traffic rose 6.6% to some 8.25 million tonnes in the first six months of the year, the country's statistical office BNS said on Friday.
Calculated in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), traffic increased 10.3% to some 2.394 million FTK in the January-June period, the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) said in a monthly report.
Details on Moldova's freight traffic follow:
Jan-May |
(in thousand tonnes) |
y/y pct change |
Total |
8,253.4 |
6.6% |
-rail |
2,307.3 |
-0.6% |
-road |
5,887.5 |
9.7% |
-river |
57.8 |
8.4% |
-air |
0.8 |
38.7% |
Source: BNS
The volume of Moldova's combined railway, road, river and air freight traffic rose 10% to some 19.4 million tonnes in 2018.