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Article: Russian rail freight transport down 20.3% in May - Rosstat.
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- Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
- Article date:
- June 19, 2009
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Russian rail freight transport down 20.3% in May - Rosstat
MOSCOW. June 19 (Interfax) - Rail freight transport in Russia decreased 20.3% to 91.5 million tonnes in May 2009 compared to May 2008, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.
Rail freight in May was 2.6% higher than in the previous month.
Volumes in May declined for all freight categories except grain (up 9.1%) and oil and petroleum products (up 2.9%).
Transportation of the main freight categories in April 2009 are summarized in the table below:
May ...