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Rail freight in Latvia up 0.7% in January-February
BC, Riga, 13.03.2019.
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Print versionFreight transportation using the Latvian railway infrastructure amounted to 7.881 mln tons in the first two months of this year, up 0.7 % from the same period in 2018, the data of the Transport Ministry shows.
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International cargo shipments by rail in January-February
2019 came to 7.705 mln tons, up 1.4% from January-February 2018, while domestic
shipments dropped 20.9% to 175,900 tons.
Transit cargo carried by rail was at 7.206 mln tons in the
first two months of the year, up 2.1% from the same months a year ago. Import
cargo carried by rail fell 5.9% to 462,900 tons, and export cargo was down
27.3% to 36,500 tons.
Shipping of rail cargo via Latvia’s ports was 6.203 mln tons
and deliveries of transit cargo by land grew 17.3% to 1.002 mln tons.
A total of 49,26 mln tons of freight were shipped by rail in
Latvia in 2018, up 12.5%,
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