YEREVAN. – Ever since running its “Armenia” brand trains, the “South Caucasus Railway” Company transported 30,575 passengers on the Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan route this summer. And this figure is 18.9 percent higher than in 2011, when 25,705 passengers were transported from June 15 to August 16.

A total of 39,005 “Armenia” brand train tickets were sold between June 1 and August 16, which is 27.3 percent above last year’s figure of 30,646 tickets.

Also, 14,487 passengers were transported from August 1 to 16 alone, which is up by 35.9 percent as compared with the same period last year, and 10,893 tickets were sold, which is up by 57.7 percent.

On the average, close to 1,000 passengers are transported daily in the Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan destination since August.