VOLUMES OF CARGOES, NUMBER OF PASSENGERS DECLINING

Jakarta, April 2 (ANTARA) - The Central Board of Statistics (BPS) has recorded a decline in the number of passengers and volumes of cargoes in the train, sea and air transportation in February 2009.

"In February 2009, the number of train passengers was recorded at 13.87 million, which showed a decline of 4.31 percent compared with that in January 2009," BPS Head Rusman Heriawan said here on Wednesday.
In the meantime, he said the volumes of cargoes transported by trains in February 2009 were recorded at 1.42 million tons or a decline by 7.01 percent.
In the January-February 2009 period, the number of passengers totaled 28.36 million, or a decline of 3.54 percent, and the volume of cargoes was 2.94 million tons, or a drop of 6.06 percent compared with those in the corresponding period in 2008.
The number of passengers in the sea transportation in the January-February 2009 period reached 929,800, which was declining by 2.98 percent compared with that in the same period a year earlier.
At the same time, the number of passengers in the domestic air transportation was recorded at 2.43 million, or a decline of 10.55 percent. The same case was true to air passengers for foreign destinations, where the number of passengers declined 7.68 percent to 502,400.