{"id":18184,"date":"2026-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/sharp-increase-in-passenger-and-freight-transport-on-polish-railways-in-april-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:00:00","slug":"sharp-increase-in-passenger-and-freight-transport-on-polish-railways-in-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/sharp-increase-in-passenger-and-freight-transport-on-polish-railways-in-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp increase in passenger and freight transport on Polish railways in April 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2026, Poland\u2019s railway sector recorded significant growth in both passenger and freight transport. According to the Polish Office of Rail Transport, over 38.8 million passengers traveled by train \u2013 a 10.1% increase compared to April 2025. In the freight sector, approximately 18.4 million tonnes of cargo were transported, exceeding the previous year\u2019s figure by 6.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total rail freight turnover reached over 4.9 billion tonne-kilometers, up 9.7%, while operational performance totaled nearly 6.9 million train-kilometers, marking a 9.1% increase. The average transport distance per tonne was 268 km, approximately 8 km longer than the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, compared to March 2026, the freight sector saw a decline: transport volume fell by nearly 1 million tonnes (-4.9%), freight turnover dropped by 4.4% to around 227.4 million tonne-kilometers, and operational performance fell by more than 6%. Despite this, the average transport distance for the month increased by nearly 1.5 km.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2026, Poland\u2019s railway sector recorded significant growth in both passenger and freight transport. According to the Polish Office of Rail Transport, over 38.8 million passengers traveled by train \u2013 a 10.1% increase compared to April 2025. In the freight sector, approximately 18.4 million tonnes of cargo were transported, exceeding the previous year\u2019s figure by 6.5%.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}