Freight carried by various means of transport for the year was 7.4% up from the previous year to reach 115.98 billion ton-kilometers, which included 89.87 billion ton-kilometers by railway, up 4.9%; 20.71 billion ton-kilometers by highway, up 22.8%; 2 billion ton-kilometers by waterway, up 5.8%; and 500 million ton-kilometers by airway, up 14.6%.