OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2012. In the 1st quarter of 2012, Russian Railways shipped 3.94 million tons of cargo for the construction of infrastructure facilities now under construction for the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Some 15 to 18 freight trains arrive every day at the stations adjacent to the Olympic construction sites, reported the press-centre of RZD.

In 2011, an average of 15.5 freight trains arrived daily, shipping a total of 16.5 million tons of Olympic freight from the territory of the Russian Federation.

In 2012, in accordance with a regulation approved by the state company Olimpstroy, Russian Railways plans to ship 17 million tons of cargo to Sochi.

Since the beginning of the Olympic construction work in May 2009, the Company has delivered more than 42 million tons of cargo to Sochi, Adler and Vesyoloe stations, which are located on Russia’s Black Sea coast.

In 2009, as part of the government programme to build infrastructure facilities for the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian Railways built and commissioned two railway freight yards in the Imeretinsky Valley.

The two freight yards have a total capacity of 15 million tons per annum. Freight yard No. 1 can handle 11 million tons a year of inert and dry bulk goods such as gravel, sand, gravel and sand & pebble mixture, while Freight yard No. 2 can process 3.7 million tons per annum of piece, long and containerised cargo.