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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 11:24
Rail freight in Latvia down 14% in 2016
In December 2016 freight transportation in Latvia reached
4.9 mln tons, up 1.5% from December 2015.
Coal transportation in December 2016 rose 28.4% y-o-y to 2.2 mln tons. Transportation of coal in full 2016 reached 16 mln tons, or by
16 % less than in 2015.
Transportation of ferrous metals in December last year
amounted to 161,000 tons, up 2.4 times y-o-y, and in full 2016 in total
of 1.8 mln tons of this cargo was transported, up 43.1% from 2015.
Transportation of oil products by rail accounted for 1.2 mln
tons in December, down 36% year-on-year, and for 16.6 mln tons in 2016, which
is a drop by 23.6% y-o-y.
Transportation of timber increased 8.8% to 148,000 tons in
December and by 4.9% to 1.6 mln tons in 2016.
Land transit grew dropped 23.8% in December to 96,000 tons,
and 11.4% in 2016 to 1.5 mln tons, import cargos accounted for 4,4 mln tons,
which is about the same as a year ago, while in 2016 import cargos dropped 12.9%
from 2015 to 42 mln tons. At the same time, export cargos reached 224,000 tons
in December, up 12.6% y-o-y, and 2.4 mln tons in 2016, dropping 16.3%
from 2015.
In 2015, 55.645 mln tons were carried by rail, down 2.4% from
2014.