The volume of freight and the number of passengers has increased slightly. The rail, road and air transport companies in February conveyed 403,900 tonnes of goods, up 32.9% from January and down 30.9% from last February. The distance covered by the goods in February was 177.6 million tonne-kilometer, by 35.3% more compared with January and 3.6% more compared with February last year, Info-Prim Neo has learned from the National Bureau of Statistics. According to the quoted source, the mentioned companies in January-February this year transported 707,800 tonnes of goods or 70.9% of the volume conveyed in the corresponding period last year. The distance covered by the goods was 308.9 million tonne-kilometer or 99.8% of the volume recorded in the same period last year. Compared with January-February 2009, the volume of freight transported by trains fell by 29.4%, while by road – by 26.8%. The distance covered by the goods conveyed by trains decreased by 32.2%. The fluvial companies did not work in January-February this year owing to the unfavorable weather conditions. A number of 16.1 million passengers were transported by buses and minibuses in the period, a decrease of 1.1% compared with the corresponding period of 2009. The transport companies working in the municipality of Chisinau conveyed 59.9% of the total number of passengers, in the municipality of Balti - 9.4%, in the districts of Cahul – 6.5%, Orhei – 3.5%, Ungheni – 1.8%, Ialoveni – 1.7%, Straseni – 1.6%.