Passenger flow in Ukraine grows by almost 27% - State Statistics Service

In total, over the first nine months of 2021, almost 1.98 billion passengers used the services of domestic transport companies, which is 4.2% more compared with January-September 2020.

In particular, the number of passengers carried by rail in January-September 2021 reached 62.6 million, which is 21.1% more compared with the same period last year; passenger turnover totaled 12.21 billion passenger-kilometers (down 49.8%).

Some 816.9 million passengers were carried by motor vehicles in January-September 2021, which is 1.2% more compared with the same period last year, passenger turnover amounted to 14.01 billion passenger-kilometers (down 2.6%).

Ukrainian airlines carried 7.1 million passengers over the reporting period, which is 86.7% more than in January-September 2020; passenger turnover amounted to 13.73 billion passenger-kilometers (up 73.8%).

As Ukrinform reported, according to the State Statistics Service, the passenger turnover of transport enterprises amounted to 49.4 billion passenger-kilometers in 2020, which is down 53.9% compared with 2019.

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