OREANDA-NEWS. April 18, 2008. In the first quarter of 2008, Gorky Railways loaded 24,900 containers, including 7,576 large containers, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

The total weight of goods in containers in 1Q2008 was 223.1 thousand tons, with 153.8 thousand tons carried in large containers.

Average daily loading was 274 containers holding 2,450 tons of cargo, including 83 large containers carrying 1,756 tons.

Transportation of goods in containers at Gorky Railways is handled by TransContainer, a subsidiary of Russian Railways. The Gorky Branch of TransContainer works with about 6,000 contractual customers, including regular customers such as Strazh-Nizhny Novgorod, LUKOIL - Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, Gruzovozoff (Nizhny Novgorod),Nefis-Cosmetics (Kazan) and the Lotus Furniture Factory in Kirov.