Transportation companies have registered a 23.4% increase in this year’s transported cargo volume

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics state that the railway, auto, fluvial and air cargo transport companies registered during January-August 2006 a 24.3% increase of transported cargo volume, and the distance covered was 3391.6 million tonnes/km. The increase in the distance covered is due to the increase in railroad transport, as a result of the increase in the medium transport distance by 40.8%. In the mentioned period transport companies have transported 9.1 million tonnes of cargo, that represented 93.2% compared to the same value from last year. In the same period the railroad transported 78% of the overall cargo. The volume of transported cargo by railway has been 7.1 million tonnes or 95.5% compared to last year. In railroad stations 1.76 million tonnes of cargo has been loaded or by 16.4% more than January-August 2005. The loaded cargo has mostly been: contruction materials and cement (36.4%), grains (14.3%), iron items and iron scrap (13.7%). With auto transport 1.92 million tonnes have been transported, or 84.7% from last year’s parameters, by fluvial transport – 77.9 thousand tonnes or 114.6% and with air freight transport – 590 tonnes or 120.4%.