In the first quarter of 2009, Freight One JSC carried 37.1 million tonnes of cargo (up 3.4 times, year-on-year), the company’s press center states.
In March the company carried 15.1 million tonnes of cargo (+34% against February 09).
In January-March 2009, the company transported 13.6 million tonnes of coal; 13.5 million tonnes of oil cargo; 3.1 million tonnes of ore, over 2.8 million tonnes of construction materials; 1.5 million tonnes of cement; 0.4 million tonnes of ferrous metal and 2.1 million tonnes of other cargo.
The company’s share in total volume of cargo transported by the network of Russian Railways OJSC reached 14.1% in Q1 09.
JSC Freight One is Russia’s largest rail transport operator. The main founder and owner of Freight One ordinary shares is JSC Russian Railways (RZD). The non-commercial organization Zheldorreform as a co-founder owns one ordinary share in the company.
Throughput of Freight One JSC up 3.4 times to 37 mln t in Q1 09
Freight One was created in July 2007 and independently began to manage the carriage stock in November of the same year. Currently Freight One owns more than 200,000 units of rolling stock of various types (75,000 tanks, 47,000 gondolas, 15,000 platforms, 14,300 box cars and about 49,000 other cars). The company’s share of all rolling stock in the Russian Federation is 21%.