Russian Railways: Loading of export cargo bound for domestic ports up 5% to over 80.6 million tonnes in 3M’19

Russian Railways says that loading of Russia’s export cargo bound for domestic ports grew by 5%, year-on-year, to over 80.6 million tonnes in January-March’2019.

In particular, coal loading grew by 11.7%, oil – by 6.5%, ore – by 23.1%, paper – by 3.2%, timber – by 4.4%.

Coal accounts for 47% of exports, oil – for 28.3%, ferrous metal – for 8%, fertilizers – for 6.2%, grain for 2.8%.

In the reporting period, loading of export cargo to the ports of the North-West Region exceeded 33.7  million tonnes (+1.3%, year-on-year), to the port of the Southern Region – about 20.6 million tonnes (+6.7%), to the ports of the Far East Region – over 26.3 million tonnes (+8.8%).