Moscow railway loads 82.2 tons in 10M06

Moscow railway (branch of Russian Railways company) loaded 82.2 tons of cargo in 10 months of 2006, MRW’s press center reports. In October it loaded 8 832.144 thou tons of cargo with average daily loading at the level of 284.908 thou tons. It is 100.7% against year-on-year result and 100.4% against plan. The October result is mainly attributed to growing loading of first-class cargo (+38.502 thou tons) and second-class cargo. The highest growth was demonstrated in the sector of coke loading (118.4% against October 2005), fertilizers (107%), ferrous metals (105.5%), iron ore (104.3%). Total 10M06 loading of MRW amounts to 82 233.621 thou tons (absolute value), or 270.505 thou tons (average daily value), which is 102% against 2005. Net cargo turnover of October totaled 11.65 billion ton-kilometer (+1.9% against 2005). For 10 months of 2006 cargo turnover totaled 103.152 billion ton-kilometer (+9.7% against 2005 and + 2.6% against plan).