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Freight shipping by rail in Latvia up 10.2% in January-October 2018
Transportation of international rail freight increased by 11.4% against
January-October 2017 to 39.143 mln tons in the first ten months of 2018, while
the amount of domestic freight carried by rail fell 20.4% to 1.148 mln tons.
Transportation of transit freight grew 12.4% year-on-year to 36.316 tons,
import freight rose 1.3% to 2.575 mln tons and export freight dropped 10.2% to
252,500 tons.
The amount of rail freight shipped through Latvian ports grew 8.2%
year-on-year to 31.987 mln tons in the ten months of 2018, and deliveries of
transit freight by land jumped 58% to 4.329 mln tons.
In 2017, transportation of rail freight in Latvia fell 8.4% from a year
before to 43.792 mln tons, which included 36.576 mln tons carried in the first
ten months of 2017.