Ukrainian carriers for the first 5 months of 2018 (January-May) reduced the volume of passenger transportation by 1.5% compared to the same period in 2017 - up to 1.9 billion people.

This is evidenced by the data of the State Statistics Service (Gosstat).

At the same time, the company's passenger turnover for this period amounted to 39.9 billion pass. / km, which is 4.4% higher than the result of five months of 2017, according to the website of financial markets news of Ukraine and the world Elcomart. ua.

In January-May of this year, 63.1 million passengers used rail transport, which is 6.

1% less than in January-May 2017, while road transport services - 806.5 million passengers, or 4.9% less.

Transportation of passengers by water transport increased by 17.3% compared to January-May 2017 - up to 100 thousand. people.

Aviation transport increased passenger transportation by 17.8% to 4.1 million.

In addition, during January-May 2018 290.3 million passengers (3.1%) used trolleybuses, 442.9 million (+ 0.3%) trolleybuses and 302.2 million passengers (+1, 9%).

Inf. finance. ua.