AsemconnectVietnam - Generally, in the first two months of the year, passenger carriage reached 745.8 million passengers, rising by 9.9% over the corresponding period last year and 32.9 billion passengers-kilometers, by 10.9%, showed the figure of the General Statistics Office.

Passengers carried by road achieved 703.8 million passengers, a rise of 10.1% and 22.9 billion passengers-kilometers, a rise of 10.7%; by inland waterway: 31.3 million passengers, up 5.5% and 0.6 billion passengers-kilometers, up 6.3%; by seaway: 1.2 million passengers, 7.3% increase and 71.1 million passengers-kilometers, 7.8% growth. Passenger carriage by airway reached a fairly good level with 7.9 million passengers, an increase of 12.6% and 8.6 billion passengers-kilometers, an increase of 13.9% because domestic airlines added more flights during Tet holiday. Only passenger carriage by railway reached 1.5 million passengers, a drop of 11.8% and 0.7 billion passengers-kilometers, a decline of 10.9% from the same period in 2017.
Generally, in the first two months of the year, cargo carriage gained 260 million tons, up 7.6% from the same period last year and 48.2billion tons-kilometers, up 5.3%. Of which the domestic transport reached 254.5 million tons, increasing by 7.7% and 25.7 billion tons-kilometers, by 18.2%; overseas transport reached 5.5 million tons, moving up by 1.2% and 22.5 billion tons-kilometers, by 2.2%. By types of transport, cargo transport by road obtained 201 million tons, up 8.1% over the same period last year and 13.3 billion tons-kilometers, up 8.9%; by inland waterway: 45.7 million tons, up 6.8% and 9.8 billion tons-kilometers, up 6.4%; by seaway: 12.4 million tons, up 3.2% and 24.5 billion tons-kilometers, up 2.9%; by airway: 61 thousand tons, up 6.1% and 160.7 million tons-kilometers, up 4.2%; by railway: 0.8 million tons, a growth of 0.7% and 0.5 billion tons-kilometers, up 10.3%.
Source: General Statistics Office