Revenue of rail and road transport increases in Mongolia in H1 2019

AKIPRESS.COM - 33.2 million tons of freight and 90.9 million passengers (double counting) were carried in total by all type of transport in Mongolia in the 1st half of 219, Montsame said.
Compared to the same period of previous year, the carried freight decreased by 0.5 percent and the number of carried passengers decreased by 10.5 percent.
The revenue from all type of transport reached MNT 846.4 billion, increased by 8.9 percent compared to the same period of previous year.
In reference period, 20.0 million tons of freight and 89.2 million passengers (double counting) were carried by road transport. The revenue from road transport reached MNT 315.9 billion, increased by 2.7 percent compared to the same period of previous year.
In reference period, 13.2 million tons of freight and 1.2 million passengers (double counting) were carried by railway transport. Compared to the same period of previous year, carried freight increased by 8.0 percent, whereas the number of carried passengers decreased by 3.2 percent.
In June 2019, 2.2 million tons of freight and 249.5 thousand passengers transported through railway transport. The carried freight increased by 0.7 percent and the number of passengers increased by 17.5 percent compared to the previous month.
In the first half of 2019, the revenue from railway transport reached MNT 335.6 billion, increased by 38.2 percent compared to the same period of previous year.