OREANDA-NEWS. July 05, 2013. According to the Statistic Committee of CIS, in January- May 2013 an amount of cargo transportation increased 16.6% in Moldova as compared with the same period of the past year.

In the reporting period four more states saw the growth in cargo transportation: Kazakhstan (+8.8%); Kyrgyzstan (+8.4 %), Azerbaijan (+4.7%) and Tajikistan (+4.3%). In the rest of the states declines were recorded: making 7.8% in Belarus; 5.1% in Ukraine; 4.1% in Armenia and 2.2% in Russia.

Information on Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for this period is missing. The average amount of cargo transportation in CIS increased 1.7% as compared with the same period of the past year.

To compare, in January-May, 2012 the growth equalled to 9.2% as compared with the same period of 2011.