October 15 (SeeNews) - The volume of Moldova's combined railway, road, river and air freight traffic rose 1.3% to some 11.7 million tonnes in the first eight months of the year, the country's statistical office BNS said on Tuesday.
Calculated in freight tonne-kilometres (FTK), traffic increased 6.2% to some 3.222 million FTK in the January-August period, the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) said in a monthly report.
Details on Moldova's freight traffic follow:
Jan-Aug |
(in thousand tonnes) |
y/y pct change |
Total |
11,693.2 |
1.3% |
-rail |
3,066.7 |
-4.3% |
-road |
8,540.4 |
3.5% |
-river |
85.0 |
-0.7% |
-air |
1.1 |
32.2% |
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.