Transport (railway transport, passengers bus transport, maritime transport, inland waterway transport, freight road transport and urban electrical transport) in the First Quarter of 2025 (preliminary data)

In the first quarter of 2025, the goods carried by land and water freight transport marked a 5.8% increase, while the transport performance fell by 2.5% in comparison with the same quarter of 2024.

The number of passengers as well as the transport performance of passenger transport (land, water and urban electrical transport) dropped by 1.7% and 19.1%, respectively. The data are preliminary and seasonally adjusted.

In the first quarter of 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year:

• The goods carried by land transported rose by 7.3%, while the transport performance decreased by 3.0%;
• The inland waterway and maritime transport carried 362.8 thousand tonnes less goods, while the performance, measured in tonne-kilometers, recorded a 16.7% rise;
• The number of passengers carried by land transport dropped by 5.4% and the performance declined by 24.7%;
• The water passenger transport reported a fall of 17.5 thousand in passenger numbers, while the performance increased by 0.8 million passenger-kilometres;
• The urban electric transport enterprises carried 2.9 thousand passengers more and the performance rose by 8.0%.