UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Railways forwarded less cargo in the last three months than the company did in the previous quarter; this holds for all the eight main cargo categories, the company press service reports.

The freight forwarder handled 9.8m tons of chemical and mineral fertilizers in the third quarter of 2016 (-8.3% on the previous quarter), 105.4 tons of grains (-7.4%), 7.3m tons of ferrous metals (-6.8%), 1.6m tons of timber (-5.1%), 1.9m tons of cement (-2.7%), 1.8m tons of scrap ferrous metals (-1.4%), 2.8m tons of chemicals and sodium carbonate (-0.4%), and 7.5m tons of industrial raw stuffs and molding materials (-0.1%).

The company handled 11.6m tons of cargo in September, which was 2.5% less than one year earlier. The decrease was mainly felt in the forwarding of mineral products (-212.8 tons, or -5.9%), iron ore (-146.9 tons, or -13.1%), fertilizers (-61.3 tons, or -5%), and timber (-13.4 tons, or -8%). All this was due to changing market demand.

Sverdlovsk Railways’ freight turnover amounted to 150.4bn ton-kilometers this year so far.