Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ), the monopoly railway operator, carried 639,700 passengers between August 18 and 24, which is 0.8% less than a week earlier, according to a statement by the company on Telegram.
“We are gradually coming out of the peak travel season, but we continue to provide detailed information on passenger traffic statistics!” wrote UZ CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi on his Facebook page.
Demand for the most popular route, Kyiv-Lviv, amounted to 128,000 requests last week, which is 15.2% less than the week before. The Kyiv-Odesa route received 71,700 requests, which is 22.3% less than during the period from August 11 to 17.
Demand for the Kyiv-Kharkiv route decreased by 8.6% to 63,300 searches, and for the Kyiv-Peremyshl route by 10.3% to 58,400.
According to statistics, the total volume of traffic still remains higher than last year: during the reporting week, the increase was 3.9% or 23,700 passengers.
The average number of passengers carried per car from August 18 to 24 was 467, which is 6.4% more than during the same period in 2024.
In addition, the number of passengers in children’s groups increased 1.3 times to 23,600, and the number of military personnel transported through the special reserve increased 2.4 times to 12,000.
As reported, in the first half of 2025, Ukrzaliznytsia increased passenger traffic by 1.2% compared to the first half of 2024, to 13.52 million. This is 23% more than in January-June 2023, Pertsovsky previously reported on Facebook.
The transport enterprises of Ukraine in January-September 2018 reduced carriage of goods by 1.1% compared to January-September 2017, to 462.5 million tonnes.
According to the State Statistics Service, freight turnover for this period decreased by 2.6%, to 247.9 billion tonne-kilometers. According to statistical data, in January-September 2018 railways transported inside the country and for exports 199.1 million tonnes of cargo, which is 3.5% less than in January-September 2017.
Transportation of coal decreased by 4.4%, oil and petroleum products by 11.8%, grain and cereals by 14%, cement by 3.9%, construction materials by 8.8%, timber by 9.6%, coke by 2.8%, ferrous metals by 1.3%. At the same time, transportation of chemical and mineral fertilizers increased by 2.3%, iron and manganese ore by 3.5%, and scrap metal by 0.3%.
The volume of cargo pumping through pipelines in January-September 2018 compared with January-September 2017 fell by 4.4%, to 80.5 million tonnes.
