OREANDA-NEWS. July 15, 2010. From January-June 2010, Freight One’s traffic volumes increased by 40% over the same period of last year to 141.0 million tons.

This figure includes 46.2 million tons of coal (+37.3%); 37.7 million tons of oil freight (+20.6%), 12.1 million tons of ore (+36.0%), 8.9 million tons of ferrous metals (+147.2 %), 4.5 million tons of timber freight (+25.4%), 7.0 million tons of construction materials (-11.2%), 3.2 million tons of chemical and mineral fertilizers (+35.8%), 6.6 million tons of cement (+40.8%) and 14.8 million tons of other freight.

The largest increase was observed in haulage in gondolas. During the period, haulage in gondolas increased by 40.9% over 2009. The breakdown was +71.3% for haulage within Russia (44.6 million tons) and +10.0% (29.2 million tons) for export. For the first time since the crisis, there was a shortage of gondolas on the network, which led to a redistribution of volumes in favor of domestic transport.

In the first half of 2010, Freight One’s share in freight traffic on the Russian Railways network was 21.7% (+3.7 percentage points over the same period of last year).