In May 2024, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) increased passenger traffic by 21% compared to the same period in 2023, to 2.4 million passengers, the UZ press service reported on Telegram on Tuesday.
According to the report, domestic traffic increased by 22% last month to 2.2 million passengers, and international traffic by 21% to 200 thousand passengers.
The leader of growth in domestic traffic in May was the Kyiv – Chop route, which grew by 221%. This was the result of the development of Chop station as a transfer hub between domestic and international trains, in particular the opening of an alternative travel option to Budapest and Vienna after the launch of trains 367/745 Lutsk/Kyiv-Chop and 143/146 Chop-Vienna in December 2023, UZ said.
In addition, the Mykolaiv-Kyiv and Kyiv-Mykolaiv routes showed an increase of 52% and 66%, respectively. High demand was also observed on the routes Kyiv-Khmelnytsky-Kyiv, Kyiv-Helm-Kyiv, Kyiv-Vinnytsia-Kyiv.
Earlier it was reported that from the beginning of the year to mid-May, UZ increased international passenger traffic by 27.7% to almost 800 thousand passengers and expects further growth in the summer months.
