By the Yerevan-Batumi trains of “South Caucasus railway” company 30.575 passengers were transported from June 15th till August 16th. This excels the estimates of 2011 by 18.9%, the latter being 25705.
From June 1st till August 16th 39 thousand 5 tickets of “Armenia” train were sold, which excels the estimate of the previous year by 27.3% (30.646 tickets).
In average about 1000 passengers go by Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan trains every day.
The increase is connected to the flexible price strategy of SCR and the high level of service. The comfort and staff and the speed are also being modernized.