Ukrainian transport companies carried 1.263 billion passengers in January-June 2021, which is 4.2% more than in January-June 2020, the State Statistics Service has reported.
The passenger turnover of transport enterprises in the specified period amounted to 27.9 billion passenger-kilometers, which is 21.1% less than in January-June last year.
According to the State Statistics Service, 38.9 million passengers used railway transport in January-June 2021 (including city commuter trains), which is 19.6% more than in the same period in 2020, and 524.2 million passengers used road transport (1.8% more).
Air transport reduced passenger traffic by 68.4%, to 3.4 million people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, in January-June 2021, some 189.2 million passengers used trams (5.9% less versus January-June 2020), subway carried 217.5 million people (23.2% more), trolleybuses some 289.6 million people (1.6% more).
During the specified period, water transport carried 0.1 million passengers (a rise of 689%).
As noted by the State Statistics Service, the indicators are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the non-controlled territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.