Vietnam's freight transportation went up 4.1 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of this year to 583.4 million tons, said a report on the website of the General Statistics Office on Monday.
In this period, the country's freight transportation by road was 427 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.3 percent, said the report.
Vietnam saw a 2.1 percent rise in cargo transportation by river in the first 11 months of this year to 107.8 million tons compared to the same period last year.
The country posted a decline of 2 percent year-on-year to 41.2 million tons in cargo transportation by sea and a decrease of 5.2 percent to 7.4 million tons in transportation of freight by railway from January to November this year.
In the first 11 months of this year, Vietnam's passenger transportation reached 1.81 billion person-times, up 8 percent year-on-year, according to the office.
