Russian transport sector up 2.7% in Q1 07, y-o-y

At first quarter of 2007 throughput of Russian Transport Sector increased by 2.7% year-on-year and reached 1191.4 bln tone per kilometer.

Throughput of railway transport made 502.5 bln tonne per kilometer (+9.9% year-on-year); transportation of motor transport made 43.3 bln tonne per kilometer (-2.2%); sea transport -11.5 bln tonne per kilometer (-10.5%), domestic water transport – 5.1 bln tonne per kilometer (-7.8%); air transport – 0.6 bln tonne per kilometer (-2.9%). Throughput of pipeline transport reduced by 1.8% year-on-year to 628.4 bln tons in January-March 2007.