Transit containers transported on network owned by Russian Railways up 30% since beginning year
During January-July 2020, more than 3.2 million loaded and empty Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEUs) containers * were transported on all routes on the network owned by Russian Railways, 15.1% more than in the same period in 2019.
On domestic routes, 1.3 million TEUs were transported, an increase of 12.1%, while containers for export increased 14.8% to about 841,000 TEUs, imported containers were up 13.8% to about 672,000 TEUs and transit containers increased 29.6% to 408,600 TEUs.
The number of loaded containers transported on all routes increased by 15.8% and amounted to about 2.2 million TEUs, which carried a total of 31.3 million tons of freight, an increase of 17.2%. The following categories were transported. The figures in brackets show the percentage change compared to January to July 2019:
- chemicals and soda – 402,000 (+29.8%);
- timber – 316,600 (+6.1%);
- paper – 204,300 (+13.5%);
- industrial goods – 196,000 (+21.5%);
- fabricated metal products – 175,600 (+10.3%);
- machines, machine tools, engines – 154,600 (+23.2%);
- cars and components – 124,600 (-7.9%);
- ferrous metals – 113,900 (+45.1%);
- non-ferrous metals – 80,300 (+23.5%);
- miscellaneous and consolidated cargo – 69,000 (+16.7%);
- oil and petroleum products – 49,000. (+0.2%);
- construction materials – 70,000 (+10.2%);
- chemical and mineral fertilisers – 24,500 (+4.8%);
- non-ferrous ore and sulphurous raw materials – 13,500 (+33%);
- fabricated metals – 8,900 (+1.5%);
- fish – 12,100 (+0.5%);
- grain – 4,900 (+12.9%);
- milled products – 6,200 (+23%);
- potatoes, fruit and vegetables – 4,700 (increase of 1.7 times);
- sugar – 1,600 (+0.1%);
- salt – 900 (+19.3%);
- other food products – 86,300 (+37.7%).
* A TEU is a twenty-foot equivalent unit, a conventional unit formeasuring capacity that corresponds to the dimensions of a standard 20foot (6.1 m) ISO shipping container.