Freight transportation on the Latvian railway infrastructure amounted to 14.1 million tons in January-March, up by 8.1% from the same period in 2016. Import cargos carried by rail totaled 12.5 mln tons at a 7.8% rise from the same period in 2016, while export cargos fell by 36% to 384,000 tons.
In the first quarter of the year, railway company Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDz) carried 6.2 mln tons of coal (+62%). Transportation of oil and oil products by rail accounted for 4.3 mln tons in the first three months of the year (-17%).
Rail freight in March totaled 4.8 mln tons, up by 12.8%. The amount of coal carried by rail in March grew by 64% reaching 2.2 mln tons.
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