Cargo transportation of RZD OJSC up 3.2% in January-September

Cargo transportation volume of RZD OJSC amounted in January-September 2006 to 971 million 560 thou tons (+3.2% against year-on-year result), the RZD’s Department of Corporate Communications reports according to RZD-Partner.ru. Major increase was demonstradet by the sector of coal transportation – 209 million 587 thou tons (+4% against year-on-year result); iron and manganese ore – 80 million 989 thou tons (+ 8.8%);  ferrous metal – 59 million 307 thou tons (+ 10.8%); ferrous metal scrap – 19 million 478 thou tons (+ 2.1%);  oil and oil products – 169 million 9 thou tons (+ 4.4%);  timber – 50 million 43 thou tons (+ 2,5%);  cement – 28 million 438 thou tons (+ 9.5%). Throughput of January-September 2006 amounted to over 1 trillion 434 billion 700 million t/km (+4.8% against year-on-year result).