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Economy
06/08/2009
2.7bn persons transported in Uzbekistan in 1H
2.7bn persons transported in Uzbekistan in 1H
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) --
Number of passengers carried by all types of transport in Uzbekistan grew by 6.6% year-on-year to 2.7 billion persons in January-June 2009. The passenger turnover has increased by 7.6% to 32.7 billion pass-km.
Share of motor transport in passenger transportation and passenger turnover was the highest - 97.6% and 88.6% respectively.
Number of passengers carried by railway transport increased by 8.6% to 7.1 million persons, the passenger turnover increased by 4.7% and totaled 1.218 billion pass-km.
About 725,600 persons were carried by air transport, or fell by 5.7% year-on-year. The passenger turnover totaled 2.176 billion pass-km and was 16.1% lower than in January-June 2008.
Passenger transportation carried out by trolleybuses, trams and underground has decreased by 44.3%, 24.1% and 7.1% respectively.
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