In the III quarter of 2024, rail transported 3.6 mln. tons of freight, which is 0.7 percent less than the respective figure of the previous year. 10.1 percent of the total freight was transported domestically, 30.5 percent was transported internationally (excluding transit) and 59.4 percent was transit.
In the III quarter of 2024, the share of incoming freight represented 76.9 percent of the railway transported freights, while the share of outgoing freight was 23.1 percent.
In the III quarter of 2024, the sender country of 37.0 percent of total incoming rail freight was Russian Federation, 30.8 percent was sent by Azerbaijan. The share of other countries sending cargo was less than ten percent each (32.2 percent combined).
In the III quarter of 2024, Kazakhstan was the final destination for 13.5 percent of total outgoing freight, for 10.4 percent – Russian Federation, for 10.3 percent – Armenia. The share of other receiving countries was less than ten percent each (65.8 percent combined).
The breakdown of the total transit freight2 by the final destination country was as follows: the Netherlands – 14.4 percent, Turkey – 7.7 percent, USA – 4.9 percent, Ukraine – 3.8 percent, Italy – 3.3 percent, China – 2.6 percent, Romania – 2.5 percent, and elsewhere was for the rest. In the same period, Brazil was the sender country of 10.1 percent of the total transit freight, Russian Federation – 3.8 percent, China – 3.1 percent, Turkey – 2.1 percent, Greece – 1.5 percent, USA – 1.3 percent, Romania – 1.1, and other countries were for the rest.
In the reporting period, 40.6 percent of the total freight were coke and refined petroleum products, 16.6 percent were chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers; rubber and plastic products, and 14.2 percent were metal ores and other mining and quarrying products.
The distribution by type of goods was different in case of freights transported domestically in the III quarter of 2024, as the share of metal ores and other mining and quarrying products equaled 60.6 percent of total, and the share of coke and refined petroleum products amounted to 20.7 percent; while the share of other non-metallic mineral products amounted to 8.1 percent.
As for the freights transported internationally, in the reporting period, incoming goods were mainly coke and refined petroleum products (45.7 percent), other nonmetallic mineral products (20.5 percent), metal ores and other mining and quarrying products (13.1 percent), basic metals (6.9 percent), and food products, beverages and tobacco (3.6 percent); while outgoing goods were mainly chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers (37.4 percent), food products, beverages and tobacco (27.7 percent), metal ores and other mining and quarrying products (13.0 percent) and basic metals (9.5 percent).
In the III quarter of 2024, three type of goods, namely coke and refined petroleum products (46.6 percent), chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers (22.7 percent), and food products, beverages and tobacco (15.1 percent) constituted for 84.3 percent of the total volume of transit freight.
In the III quarter of 2024, the number of passengers transported by the Georgian Railway decreased by 8.2 percent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year and amounted to 676.1 thousand persons. At the same time, passenger turnover increased by 46.0 percent and amounted to 327.0 million passenger-kilometer.
In the III quarter of 2024, the number of passengers transported within the country amounted to 658.9 thousand persons, which represents 97.4 percent of the total number of passengers carried and 8.2 percent less than the same figure to the corresponding period of 2023. At the same time, the number of passengers transported internationally amounted to 17.3 thousand, which is 11.4 percent less than the corresponding figure of the previous year. The country of embarkation was Armenia for 79.2 percent of internationally transported passengers while the country of disembarkation was Armenia for 20.8 percent of international transported passengers (no passengers were transported from/to any other neighboring country in the III quarter of 2024)
