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The CSO details that in the third quarter of 2020, the performance of national transport measured in ton-kilometers of cargo was 6.7% and that of international transport 16% lower than the previous year.
National and international restrictions imposed as a result of the epidemiological emergency have had a negative impact on most modes of transportation. The mass of goods transported by gas pipelines fell the most, by 33 percent, mainly due to last year’s high base value.
The performance of international road transport decreased by 17 percent.
Rail freight throughput in ton-kilometers increased 1.8 percent to 2.6 billion, while the volume of freight transported fell 2.6 percent to 12.2 million tonnes in the third quarter of this year. The volume of international transit and exports increased by 5.6 and 14 percent, respectively, while domestic and import sales decreased by 16 and 8.7 percent, respectively.
Land freight transportation volume increased 18 percent and its cargo tonne-kilometer performance increased 8.3 percent compared to the third quarter of 2019. Although the volume and performance of cargo transportation by national water decreased, the volume of total international traffic was 18 percent and its performance was 8.4 percent higher than in the same period of the previous year.
The drop in interurban passenger transport was less than in the previous quarter. In long-distance domestic passenger transport, throughput decreased by 24 percent and the number of passengers by 17 percent compared to the previous year; in international terms, throughput was reduced by 85 percent and passenger traffic by 83 percent.
The performance of bus passenger transport decreased by 38%, passenger transport by rail by 22%, air transport by 84% and passenger transport by lighter weight by 25 %.
The share of air passenger transport in total performance decreased from 34% in the same period of the previous year to 11%, while passenger transport by bus increased by 9.7 percentage points to 52% and passenger transport by rail by 13 percentage points to 37%. 74 percent of passengers were transported by bus, 25 percent by train and 0.3 percent by plane in the third quarter of 2020.
According to the CSO summary, passenger traffic from Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport to 49 countries in the third quarter was 786.4 thousand people, 83 percent less than a year earlier. Debrecen airport passenger traffic decreased by 86 percent and the number of flights by 53 percent compared to the same period last year.
In the third quarter, the number of passenger cars put on the market in Hungary for the first time was 68,000, 13 percent less than the previous year. The Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota and Suzuki brands together accounted for more than a third of the vehicles on the market.
The number of new passenger cars fell by 15% and the number of second-hand cars by 11%. Fifty-one percent of first-time registered cars were new, an increase from the previous quarter, but still 21 percentage points less than 10 years earlier. Compared to the third quarter of 2019, 45 percent more electric cars were sold for the first time. In the third quarter, the number of buses put on the market in Hungary for the first time exceeded the same period in 2019 by 18 percent and by 11 percent for tractors, while the number of trucks fell by 20 percent and that of motorcycles 6.4 percent, according to the CSO.
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