Boxes handling at FER stations grows 6.7 percent

Shipments of containers at the stations of the Far Eastern Railway (FER) in January-February 2012 totaled more than 32,000 units, up 6.7% over the same period of 2011, the RZD branch press office said.

Loading of large containers, according the FER unit JSC "Center for containerized cargo "Transcontainer", increased year-on-year by 9.3% to over 30,500 units.

In the reporting period, the company loaded in containers about 545,400 tons of cargo (+6.7% y-o-y). The average daily volume of container traffic rose 5% to over 9 million tons. The average weight of a container was nearly17 tons.