Tajik rail shipments reportedly decrease by more than 12 percent

DUSHANBE, December 27, 2011, Asia-Plus  — Over the first eleven months of this year, all types of transportation have shipped some 57 million tons of cargo, which is 1.4 percent more than in the same period last year, the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan reports. Automotive transportation has shipped more than 48.2 […]

Payrav Chorshanbiyev

DUSHANBE, December 27, 2011, Asia-Plus  — Over the first eleven months of this year, all types of transportation have shipped some 57 million tons of cargo, which is 1.4 percent more than in the same period last year, the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan reports.

Automotive transportation has shipped more than 48.2 million tons of cargo in January-November this year, which is 4 percent more than in the same period last year.  The proportion of cargo shipments by automotive transportation in the overall amount of shipments was some 85.1 percent.

In the meantime, more than 8.4 million tons of cargo have been shipped by rail transportation over the same eleven-month period, which was 88.7 percent of the January-November 2010 level.   

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