Goods and passengers carried and transport performance by mode of transport in the Third Quarter of 2023 (preliminary data)

In the third quarter of 2023, the goods carried by freight land and water transport rose by 15.7% and the transport performance by 4.4% in comparison with the same quarter of 2022. The data are preliminary.

The number of passengers carried by passenger transport (land, water and urban electrical transport) increased by 4.9% in the second quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, the transport performance recorded a decline of 4.0%.

The third quarter of 2023 compared to the same quarter of 2022:

• In the third quarter of 2023, the transported goods by the land transport were 14.5% up on the same quarter of 2022, and the transport performance increased by 4.6%.
• The goods carried by sea and inland waterway transport rose by 572.4 thousand tonnes, while the transport performance, measured in tonne-kilometres, fell by 2.9%.
• The number of transported passengers by land transport decreased by 2.0% and the transport performance recorded a drop of 5.8% compared to the same quarter of 2022.
• In the third quarter of 2023 there was an increase of 22.8 thousand passengers in volume of transported passengers by water transport, while transport performance declined by 10 thousand passenger-kilometres.

During the period July - September 2023, the enterprises performing urban electrical transport carried 15.8% more passengers and the transport performance increased by 12.0% compared to the same period of 2022.