Compared to the first quarter of 2015, in the first quarter of 2016 the volume of freight carried by road and pipelines diminished by 14%.
The most notable drop was recorded in international rail freight – of 3.5 million tons or 21.5% of which the volume of import freight fell by 20.2%, the volume of export freight by 14.0%, while volume of freights in transit trough Latvia fell by a worrying 49.5%.
Freights transported to and from Latvian ports accounted for 10.8 million tons – 21% less than in the first quarter of 2015.
Road freight was also in decline, though not to quite such an extent: in the first quarter of 2016, 11.8 million tons of freight were carried by road – 5.8 % less than in the first quarter of 2015.
