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Number of passenger train trips rises but freight trips slides in Q3

Published : 31 Dec 2022, 02:53

  DF Report
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A total of 20.6 million trips were made by rail in the third quarter of 2022, which is 36 % higher than the number in the third quarter of 2021, according to Statistics Finland.

The number, however, was 9 percent lower than the third quarter of 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.

Freight transferred by rail in the third quarter of 2022 was 7,6 million tons, which was 24 % less than in the third quarter of 2021.

Tonnage decreased by 24 % from the same quarter of 2021.