Freight and passengers numbers

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In the first 4 months of 2013, 6,346.1 thousand tons of freight and 1,213.1 thousand passengers (double counting) were carried by railway transport. Compared to same period of the previous year, the number of carried freight decreased 274.5 thousand tons or 4.1 percent, and the number of the passengers carried got down by 51.4 thousand persons or 4.1 percent. The same period, 1,151.7 tons of freight and 217.2 thousand passengers (double counting) were carried by air transport. Compared to same period of 2012, the number of carried freight went down 28.2 tons or 2.4 percent, bu the number of carried passengers rose 17.5 thousand persons or 8.8 percent. The revenue from air transport increased by MNT 4.7 billion or 8.6 percent to MNT 59.4 billion in the first 4 months of 2013 against the same period of the previous year.