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Freight shipping by rail in Latvia up 12.1% in January-November
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Transportation of international rail freight increased by
13.4% against January-November 2017 to 43.57 mln tons in the first 11 months of
2018, while the amount of domestic freight carried by rail fell 18.3% to 1.254 mln
tons.
Transportation of transit freight grew 14.3% year-on-year to
40.406 tons, import freight rose 3% to 2.874 mln tons and export freight
dropped 6.1% to 289,900 tons.
The amount of rail freight shipped through Latvian ports
grew 10.9% year-on-year to 35.685 mln tons in the 11 months of 2018, and
deliveries of transit freight by land jumped 49.9% to 4.721 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.
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