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A total of 5.1 million tons of iron ore was exported from January to April 2025. Including 2.9 million tons shipped in the eastern direction (+22.3%), 1.3 million tons in the southern direction (+7.9%), and 921.4 thousand tons in the western direction (+18.2%). The leading regions in terms of export loading volume are: - Belgorod Region (1.4 million tons) - Transbaikal Territory (1.2 mln tons) - Jewish Autonomous Region (919.6 thousand tons) Subscription to news

Major Russian exporters including Rusal and Gazpromneft have cut the planned volume of commodities like metal and oil products they send by rail, a Russian Railways document seen by Reuters showed, the latest sign of subdued demand as the country's war economy slows. The state-owned rail monopoly intends to reduce 2025 spending by an additional 32.5 billion roubles ($408 million), or around 3.5%, to 858.4 billion roubles, due to the revised cargo forecast, according to the document dated March ...

In January-April 2025, 2,558,000 loaded and empty TEU containers were transported through the Russian Railways (RZD) network in all modes of transportation. The year-on-year decrease in the indicators is 0.4%. “Including, more than 1 million TEU were shipped in domestic traffic (-2.3%). The number of loaded containers shipped in all types of traffic exceeded 1.8 million TEU (-2.4%). They transported 26.9 million tons of cargo, (+0.6%), including ..metalware - 139.2 thousand (-3.1% to the level ...