UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2011. Sverdlovsk Region Railways (a subsidiary of Russian Railways) handled 92.7m tons of shipments in nine months of 2011, which was 3.4% more than in nine months of 2010.

According to the data available, the company shipped 21.6m tons of oil (an 8.8% increase against last year), 9.5m tons of ferrous metal ore (a 7.1% increase against last year), 6m tons of non-ferrous metal ore (a 0.4% drop), 1.9m tons of cement (an increase of 10.4%), 15.7m tons of building materials (plus 6.5%), 1.1m tons of coke (an increase of 12.9%), 900,000 tons of stone coal (plus 9.9%), 1.7m tons of timber (a drop of 20% against last year), 8.1m tons of ferrous metals (a 6.5% increase), 2.1m tons of scrap metal (plus 6.4%), 3.2m tons of chemicals (a drop of 2.9%), 9.4m tons of fertilizers (a drop of 0.2%), and 1.5m tons of container-loaded cargo (plus 9.7%).