Transportation and logistics

China’s passenger traffic decreased for the ninth consecutive quarter, falling by 5.4% y/y to 4.5bn people in the first three months of 2018. The decline came as the highway subsector, which accounted for 78% of the total traffic, registered a ...

In Q4 2017, the total passenger traffic slid by 6.7% y/y to 4.5bn persons, due to declined passenger traffic in the highway subsector. In Q4 2017, highway passenger traffic decreased by 10.6% y/y to 3.5bn persons, as people continually ...

As the largest contributor to the growth of the services sector in India, travel and tourism has tremendous potential for development. It plays a significant role in India’s economy, directly contributing 3.6% to its GDP in 2017 and directly ...

The Philippines’ tourism sector made up 8.6% of the country’s GDP in 2016. The sector’s value added grew by 12.3% y/y, contributing some PHP 1.24tn GVA in the same year, according to figures of the Department of Tourism ...

In Q3 2017, the total passenger traffic, including airlines passenger traffic, highway passenger traffic, railway passenger traffic and waterway passenger traffic, dropped by 5% y/y to 4.7bn, due above all to a decrease in highway passenger traffic, ...

China’s transportation sector is almost entirely run by state-owned corporations, as its development is viewed as a major driver for the country’s economic growth. In the railways subsector, there was extensive construction of new ...

The value added of Thailand’s transportation and communications sector stood at THB 1,030.7bn in 2016, growing 5.5% y/y from 2015. The sector recorded 44,672 transportation and storage enterprises that employed some 1.2 million people, or ...

China had 123,993 km of railways at the end of 2016, up by 2.5% y/y. Of these railway lines, 21,741 km were high-speed rail (HSR), making China’s the longest HSR network in the world. In 2016, the railway sector saw stable growth in passenger ...

The travel and tourism sector plays a significant role in Malaysia’s economy, directly contributing 4.7% to Malaysia’s 2016 GDP and accounting for 12% of total employment. Thus, travel and tourism receives considerable attention from the ...

China’s transportation sector is almost entirely run by state-owned corporations, as its development is viewed as a major driver for the country’s economic growth. In the railways subsector, there was extensive construction of new ...