“723 thousand trucks drove along the Crimean bridge in 12 months ... The annual freight traffic was 2.5 times higher than the same figure for the Kerch ferry,” the report said.

It is noted that since the opening of the Crimean bridge, due to round-the-clock and free travel, transport companies have saved over 14 billion rubles.

It is reported that the cargo flow in the direction of the Crimea was approximately 4% higher than Krasnodar and amounted to almost 377 thousand vehicles.

In September, a new traffic record was recorded on Krymsky Bridge: almost 3 thousand wagons drove through it per day. In July, more than 73 thousand cars used it.

According to Kryminform, over the year, traffic on the road part of the bridge exceeded 7.65 million cars and trucks, motorcycles, buses.

Earlier, Russian journalists completed a test drive on the railway part of the Crimean bridge.

September 11, it became known that on the Crimean bridge began to install automatic control systems and train control.