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Thursday, 28.11.2024, 15:51
Latvia: Number of passengers on international train routes up 8% in 11 months
The largest number of passengers was traditionally carried on Riga-Moscow-Riga route - 114,676, declining by 3.2% from a year ago. The next most popular route was Riga-St.Petersburg-Riga with 54,187 passengers, growing 7.4%.
Also, Riga-Minsk-Riga route carried 5,237 passengers, down 32.9% y-o-y.
In cooperation with Ukrainian railway company, Kyiv-Minsk-Vilnius-Riga route was launched in September 2018, and this year it has been used by 18,763 passengers.
The Riga-Valga route in the first 11 months of this year saw 14,333 passengers, up 16.6% y-o-y.
Last year 215,995 passengers were carried on international routes from Riga.
Latvijas Dzelzcels is a fully state-owned enterprise managing public railway infrastructure. It is the leading company of the LDz Group, which includes six subsidiaries.