In the second quarter of 2023 the number of passengers were transported by the Georgian
Railway increased by 47.4 percent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year and
amounted to 568.9 thousand persons. In the same period, passenger turnover value increased by
50.9 percent and amounted 176.9 million passenger-kilometer, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat) said Friday.
According to GeoStat, in the second quarter of 2023, the number of national transported passengers amounted to 560.2 thousand persons, which represents 98.5 percent of the total number of passengers and exceeds the same indicator of the corresponding period of the previous year by 48.7 percent.
The number of international transported passengers at the same period amounted to 8.7 thousand, which is 6.0 percent less than the same indicator of corresponding period of the previous year.
The country of embarkation was Armenia for 60.7 percent of international transported passengers while the country of disembarkation was Armenia for 39.3 percent of international transported
passengers (no passengers were transported from/to Azerbaijan in the second quarter of 2023).
