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UKRAINIAN TRANSPORT COMPANIES CARRY 939 MLN PEOPLE IN JAN-APR 2020

21 May , 2020  

Ukrainian transport companies carried 939.3 million people in January-April 2020, which is 34.1% less than a year ago, the State Statistics Service has said.
The authority said that passenger turnover of transport companies over the period totaled 19.3 billion passenger/km, which is 39.6% less than a year ago.
According to the State Statistics Service, in January-April of this year, 28 million passengers used rail transport (including transportation by the city electric train), which is 43.1% less than in January-April 2019, and 394.7 million passengers (35.1% less) travelled by road.
Air transport decreased passenger transportation by 41.2%, to 2 million people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, in January-April 151.6 million passengers used trams (a decrease of 26.6% compared with the same period a year earlier), subways carried 139.2 million people (a decrease of 41%), and trolleybuses some 223.8 million passengers (30.5% down).
Passenger transportation by water decreased by 96.2% and amounted to around 10,000 people.
According to the service, the indicators are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.