31 Dec 2014 17:32

Russian railways carry 1.6% less freight in 2014

MOSCOW. Dec 31 (Interfax) - Russia's railways carried about 10 billion tonnes of freight in 2014, 1.6% less than in 2013, the government said in information posted on its website.

Freight turnover was up 3% to 2.68 trillion tonne-km.

Railways carried an estimated 1.072 billion passengers, down 0.7%. Passenger turnover fell 9.2% to 125.7 billion passenger-km.

Overall public transport passenger turnover in Russia grew 3.9% to 567.3 billion passenger-km.