OREANDA-NEWS. October 18, 2011. Freight One hauled more than 70,000 metric tons of coal in the third quarter of 2011 on Sakhalin Island.

This represents an increase of 420% over the second quarter, when the figure was 13,500 metric tons of steam coal.

A considerable amount of the coal was hauled to Sakhalin Oblast power plants. A total of 34,000 tons of coal was delivered to the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk TETs-1 power plant, which provides heat and electricity to the south of the island and the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. About 7000 tons of coal was hauled to the Sakhalin GRES power plant, which accounts for about 30% of the region’s total power production.

"Hauling fuels on Sakhalin Island is a significant part of Freight One’s work in the Far East, considering that the company accounts for up to 40% of the total traffic of socially important goods on the Russian Railways network. Besides coal, in the Sakhalin region we haul bulk oil, construction materials, foodstuffs, consumer goods, providing, among other things, goods and supplies to the island from the mainland. These trips have always been significant for us from the social standpoint," said Freight One’s Vladivostok Branch Director Viktor Osipov.