The volume of transported soil materials decreased by 18 per cent and the volume of transport for other goods increased by 17 per cent compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
The total transport volume of lorries amounted to 5.2 billion tonne-kilometres in the first quarter, which was three per cent more than in the corresponding quarter of one year before as shown in the data derived from the statistics on goods transport by road.
Ninety-three per cent of the transport volume was transported in professional transport and seven per cent in private transport.
