More than half of the passenger traffic to and from India is accounted for by the countries in the Africa & Middle East. FREIGHT TRAFFIC Air cargo carried by scheduled airline operators, both domestic and international witnessed a positive growth in 2015-16. TABLE 5: FREIGHT TRAFFIC AT A GLANCE FREIGHT TRAFFIC 2015-16 2014-15 6.24 Lakh MT 5.91 Lakh MT DOMESTIC (5.41) (16.54) 14.04 Lakh MT 13.68 Lakh MT INTERNATIONAL (2.63) (8.57) Figures in parenthesis refer to percentage change over previous year; MT: Metric Tonne. The domestic cargo traffic registered a growth of 7.6% (CAGR) over the period from 2006-07 to 2015-16 while International cargo traffic grew at 4.7% (CAGR) during the same period. Dedicated cargo refers to the cargo carried by aircrafts solely meant for freight carriage. The proportion of the total domestic cargo carried as belly cargo has generally been declining over the years since 2005-06 with the exception of 2014-15. TABLE 6: PROPORTION OF INTERNATIONAL CARGO CARRIED BY INDIAN AND FOREIGN CARRIERS YEAR INDIAN CARRIERS (%) FOREIGN CARRIERS (%) 2004-05 13.6 86.4 2009-10 16.1 83.9 2010-11 20.3 79.7 2011-12 21.1 78.9 2012-13 17.7 82.3 2013-14 18.3 81.7 2014-15 17.8 82.2 2015-16 16.9 83.1
More than half of the passenger traffic to and from India is accounted for by the countries in the Africa & Middle East. FREIGHT TRAFFIC Air cargo carried by scheduled airline operators, both domestic and international witnessed a positive growth in 2015-16. TABLE 5: FREIGHT TRAFFIC AT A GLANCE FREIGHT TRAFFIC 2015-16 2014-15 DOMESTIC 6.24 Lakh MT (5.41) 5.91 Lakh MT (16.54) INTERNATIONAL 14.04 Lakh MT (2.63) 13.68 Lakh MT (8.57) Figures in parenthesis refer to percentage change over previous year; MT: Metric Tonne. The domestic cargo traffic registered a growth of 7.6% (CAGR) over the period from 2006-07 to 2015-16 while International cargo traffic grew at 4.7% (CAGR) during the same period. Dedicated cargo refers to the cargo carried by aircrafts solely meant for freight carriage. The proportion of the total domestic cargo carried as belly cargo has generally been declining over the years since 2005-06 with the exception of 2014-15. TABLE 6: PROPORTION OF INTERNATIONAL CARGO CARRIED BY INDIAN AND FOREIGN CARRIERS YEAR INDIAN CARRIERS (%) FOREIGN CARRIERS (%) 2004-05 13.6 86.4 2009-10 16.1 83.9 2010-11 20.3 79.7 2011-12 21.1 78.9 2012-13 17.7 82.3 2013-14 18.3 81.7 2014-15 17.8 82.2 2015-16 16.9 83.1
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