Moroccan railway traffic: 1.73 bln dhs receipts in 3Ú4 of 2003

Railway traffic generated 1.73 billion DHs (9.04 Dhs: US $1) receipts from January to October 2003 against 1.65 billion Dhs the previous year, the equipment and transport ministry said.

This 4.8 percent rise resulted from the increase of the number of travellers ("12.9 pc), the ministry said in its monthly report. Some 12 million people travelled in trains during the first 10 months of 2003 against 10.61 in the same period of 2002, it pointed out.