{"id":256129,"date":"2026-08-19T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256129\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:51:09","slug":"shafaq-news-passenger-traffic-and-freight-decline-on-iraqs-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256129\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Passenger traffic and freight decline on Iraq\u2019s railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-19T12:04:37+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s railway passenger traffic fell 22.6% to 192,000 in<br \/>\n2025, while freight volumes dropped 27% to 354,000 tons, the Central<br \/>\nStatistical Organization (CSO) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger-kilometers also declined 20.4% to 78 million,<br \/>\ncompared with 98 million in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger revenue fell 17.9% to 2.224 billion Iraqi dinars<br \/>\n($1.70 million) from 2.708 billion dinars ($2.07 million), while freight<br \/>\nrevenue dropped 26.3% to 11.307 billion dinars ($8.63 million) from 15.347<br \/>\nbillion dinars ($11.72 million).<\/p>\n<p>The number of freight wagons increased 4.5% to 267 from 255,<br \/>\nwhile the average cost of transporting one ton rose 0.9% to 31,941 dinars<br \/>\n($24.38) from 31,643 dinars ($24.16). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraqi-Kirkuk-railway-station-Heavy-with-memory-waiting-for-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Passenger traffic and freight decline across Iraq railways<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-19T12:04:37+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s railway passenger traffic fell 22.6% to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,2034,94,4578,70659,24469],"class_list":["post-256129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-freight","tag-iraq","tag-passenger","tag-passenger-traffic-and-freight-decline-on-iraqs-railway","tag-railways"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117122268096511422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}