The amount of cargo handled by Russian Railway Public Company went up by 3.9% over the five months of 2008; the company has transported a total of 570 million tons of cargo since the beginning of the year and some 115 million tons of cargo in May 2008 (.2% better than a month earlier). In May 2008, the growing volume of cargo operations was most noticeable at Kaliningrad Railways, with their 12.4% increase in freight turnover, Sakhalin Railways, with their 11.2% increase, East Siberian Railways, with their 9.6% increase, and South Ural Railways, with their 6.8% increase.