OREANDA-NEWS. March 21, 2011. In January- February 2011 haulage companies and individual cargo carriers in Azerbaijan rendered services for AZN 612 million   that is by 14.9% more versus January- February 2010 indicator.

The Azerbaijan State Statistics Committee (ASSC) informs that for the reported term cargo transportation reached 29.9 million tons of cargo that exceeds the same period of 2010 by 5.6%. In 2010 cargo carriages totaled 196.3 million tons that was by 3.1% more versus the 2009 indicators.

Over the reported period  the largest part of cargo transportation was carried out by road (46.9%), via pipelines 35.2%, by rail 11.2% and by sea 6.7%. The share of cargo carriages by private sector (rise by 5.6%) totaled 70.8%.

For the reported period 218.3 million of passengers were carried that is by 6.1% more against January- February 2010. The figure was 1.4 bn people in 2010 (+4.5% against 2009).

For the reported period it was transported 3.4 million tons of cargo by rail (+4.7%) versus 22.3 million (+6,6%) in 2010. Cargo turnover reached 1.2 bn ton-km .

Maritime transport shipped 2 million tons of cargo (+3.3%) against 11.7 million tons (-11.2%) in 2010 and 13.2 million tons of oil (+10,1%)  in 2009 . At that, 61.6% of cargo fell on the share of oil and 38.4% (25%) on dry cargo.

For the reported period 14 million tons of cargo (+6%) and 189.2 million passengers (+7.7%) were carried by road versus 99.9 million tons cargo (+6%) and 1.2 bn passengers (+7.7%) in 2010.

166.600 passengers were carried by air in 2011 versus 1 million ones in 2010. At that 98% of passengers were carried by state airlines and 2% by private ones.

Last year’s cargo carriages by air totaled 39,500 tons and private sector provided 81.3% of them.

For the reported period it was transported 8 million tons of oil via pipelines versus 50 million tons in 2010 and 50.5 million tons in 2009. Transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline made up 6.1 million versus 38.3 million tons oil and  38.2 million tons respectively.

The pumping via main gas pipelines reached 3.5 bn cu m against 17.3 bn in 2010 and 11.6 bn in 2009.  Export via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline totaled 760.4 million cu m. of gas versus 4.6 bn cu m and 5.2 bn cu m respectively.