Amount of freight to and from Bulgaria registers increase

During the third trimester of 2012 freight on land and water transport has gone up by 7% compared to the previous trimester, the National Statistical Institute informs.

Compared to the second trimester of 2012 transported passengers in land, water and public electric transport have been by 0.1% more. An increase is registered both in home and international transport. The increase in internal carriage is due to a great extent to the long distance petrol and petrol products transportation, which is 26% up.

The increase in international transport is due to the highway cargo transport which registers a growth of 1 million 200 thousand tons of goods. 

Adapted from Bulgarian National Radio