Transport (railway, passenger bus, maritime, inland waterways, road freight and urban electrical transport) in the First Quarter of 2024 (preliminary data)

In the first quarter of 2024 the goods carried by freight land and water transport rose by 0.9%, while the transport performance declined by 5.3% in comparison with the same quarter of 2023. The data are preliminary.

Compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the number of passengers transported by passenger transport (land, water and urban electrical transport) rose by 13.4%. The transport performance also increased by 11.9%, compared to first quarter of 2023.

First quarter of 2024, compared to same quarter of 2023:

• The transported goods by land transport increased by 10.3%, while the transport performance dropped by 8.2%;
• The goods carried by sea and inland waterway transport rose by 86.4 thousand tonnes and the transport performance, measured in tonne-kilometres, increased by 25.1%;
• The number of transported passengers by land transport went up by 0.7% and the transport performance recorded an increase of 22.5%;
• There was an increase of 1.4 thousand passengers in the number of transported passengers by water transport, while the transport performance dropped to 1 800.0 pkm;
• The enterprises performing urban electrical transport carried 6.7 thousand passengers more and the transport performance also increased by 25.5%.