A sum of 13.2 million homegrown significant distance train trips were made in 2022, which is around 58% more than in 2021 however around 8% not exactly in 2019, said public railroad administrator VR in an official statement on Thursday.
“Travel volumes during the Christmas season were high and, surprisingly, surpassed the level of the past record year, 2019. The expansion in occasion and recreation travel is reflected emphatically in the figures for the entire year, which is delegated by an untouched high in the quantity of excursions each month arrived at in July.
A sum of 1.4 million excursions. In the entire year figures, nonetheless, the quantity of excursions didn’t yet arrive at the pre-pandemic level, which is especially because of the way that the volume of work and business travel stayed at a lower level than previously,” said CEO of VR Elisa Markula.
In 2022, 29.7 million tons of products were moved by rail, which is 20% not exactly in 2021.
The volume of homegrown railroad transport diminished by 1% and global traffic diminished by 55% year-on-year.
“We have an extremely outstanding year behind us. Our Eastern cargo traffic has been suspended and the decrease in transport volumes has been to some extent made up for by higher homegrown vehicle volumes. The pattern in roundwood transport, specifically, has been extremely sure, and we have moved record volumes of roundwood in Finland during the harvest time,” Markula added.
In December, the railroad transport volumes diminished by 30% year-on-year and added up to 2.3 million tons.
In the mean time, the dependability of VR significant distance traffic in December was 74.3%.
Essential defer passages were split between track-related causes (36%), different causes (35%) and VR-related causes (29%).
The reliability of VR worker traffic in December was 90.0%. The purposes behind delays were split between different causes (61%), track-related causes (25%) and VR-related causes (14%).
(All things considered, 71 seconds bogged down. The purposes behind delays were split between different causes (68%), track-related causes (25%) and VR-related causes (7%).
“Defers in significant distance traffic brought about by railroad line flaws are expanding step by step because of the unfortunate state of the rail line organization, which is dependent upon a high support build-up.
This may likewise affect the fame of trains as a method of transport, and the circumstance ought to be improved rapidly with the goal that we can keep on building a far superior client experience on rails in the future too,” Markula said.
