In Q2 2018, some 20.5 million passengers were transported in Croatia, which was 1.3 percent less than in the same period in 2017, showed the latest figures published by the state statistics bureau.

On the other hand, the transport of goods in the same period went up by 32 million tonnes, or 6.4 percent compared to Q2 2018.

The number of passengers transported in January-December 2018 was 85 million, or 1 percent fewer than in 2017. The decrease was mostly due to a decline in road transport, of 3.7 percent, to 47.7 million. At the same time, 20.2 million passengers were transported by rail, an increase of 2.1 percent year on year.

Quarter-on-quarter declines in passenger transport were recorded in road and air transport, while all other modes of transport generated growth. On the other hand, goods transport increased for all modes of transport, except internal waterways and air transport.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with the same time in 2017, 5.5 million passengers were transported by rail, up 0.5 percent. The number of passengers transported by road fell by 2.6 percent to 12.6 million, and the amount passengers transported by air dropped by 0.6 percent, to 474,000. Domestic shipping companies reported a 1.8 percent increase in the number of passengers, to 1.8 million.

In the final quarter of 2018, 32 million tonnes of goods was transported, an increase of 6.4 percent on the year. The largest decrease, 25.5 percent, was observed on internal waterways, to 143,000 tonnes. Air transport fell by 1 percent to 1,000 tonnes, while rail transport increased by 21.3 percent to 3.8 million tonnes.

The amount of goods transported in January-December 2018 was 118.2 million tonnes, up 3 percent on 2017. Road transport increased by 2.3 percent to 74 million tonnes, rail transport rose by 10.4 percent to 13.4 million tonnes, pipeline transport increased by 5.9 percent to 10.8 million tonnes, and internal waterways transport went up by 3 percent to 592,000 tonnes.

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