December 03, 2008

Rail container transportation increase by 11% YoY

It is reported that Mr Vadim Morosov first VP of JSC Russian Railways at the 13th International Exhibition and Conference TransRussia 2008 estimated that during the last 4 years annually the rate of increase of the international rail container transportation volume totaled about 11%.

According to Mr V.Morozov in 2007.the international rail container transportation volume increased by 1.3 times and totaled more than 822,000 TEU. Import grew by 1.5 times up to 351,000 TEU transit by 1.3 times up to 125,000 TEU.