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.