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UKRAINIAN TRANSPORT COMPANIES TRANSPORTED 187 MLN PEOPLE IN JANUARY 2021

Ukrainian transport companies transported 187.1 million people in January 2021, which is 44.7% less than in the same period in 2020, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to its data, the passenger turnover of transport companies for the reporting period amounted to 3.7 billion passenger-kilometers, which is 52.1% less than this figure for the indicated period of the last year.
According to the State Statistics Service, 5.4 million passengers used rail transport in January of this year (including city commuter train services), which is 51.8% less than in January 2020, and 80.5 million passengers used road transport (44.7% less).
Air transport reduced passenger traffic by 65.4%, to 300,000 people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, in January 26.5 million passengers used trams (a decrease of 46.4% compared to the same period a year earlier), the metro carried 32.1 million people (a decrease of 41.2%), trolleybuses some 42.3 million passengers (a decrease of 44.8%).
The indicators are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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