Ukrainian transport companies saw passenger transportation fall by 3.5% in January-July 2012 compared to January-July 2011, to 3.9 billion people, the State Statistics Service has reported.
Passenger turnover fell by 0.9%, to 77.4 billion passenger-kilometers.
In the period, 252.4 million passengers traveled by rail, which was the same year-over-year (taking into account transportation by city trains).
The number of passengers serviced by Prydniprovska railways grew by 0.2%.
Donetsk railways decreased the number of passengers serviced by 2%, Pivdenna railways by 1.3%, while Pivdenno-Zakhidna railways saw passenger transportation fall by 4.3%, Odesa railways by 2%, and Lviv railways by 2.3%.
In January-July 2012, two billion passengers traveled by road, including those serviced by private entrepreneurs, and this was 6.7% down on January-July 2011. Passenger transportation by private entrepreneurs alone fell by 10.4%.
Passenger transportation by sea contracted by 14.3% year-over-year. Sevastopol-based enterprises accounted for 80.4% of overall voyages by sea and decreased transportation by 17.7%.
Sea voyages abroad grew by 25% in January-July 2012 compared to January-July 2011. Crimean companies, which accounted for 98.3% of all voyages abroad, increased passenger transportation by 25.4%.
Airlines carried 4.5 million passengers in the period under review, which was 10.5% up year-over-year.
Municipal electric transport serviced 1.7 billion passengers in January-July 2012, which was the same year-over-year.
Passenger transportation in January-July 2012:
Passenger transportation | Passenger turnover | |||
Passengers, millions | in % to Jan-July 2011 | passenger-kilometers | in % to Jan-July 2011 | |
By all means of transportation | 3,895.0 | 96.5 | 77,419.9 | 99.1 |
Including by: | ||||
rail | 252.4 | 100.0 | 30,068.2 | 97.5 |
road | 1,974.9 | 93.3 | 28,972.8 | 98.5 |
water | 3.6 | 82.9 | 45.2 | 89.4 |
air | 4.5 | 110.5 | 7,991.9 | 106.3 |
tram | 454.4 | 99.3 | 2,531.9 | 99.6 |
trolleybus | 764.5 | 100.6 | 4,443.6 | 100.8 |
subway | 440.7 | 99.6 | 3,366.3 | 99.9 |
©Source: State Statistics Service