Russian Railways shared statistics on foreign trade cargo flows by rail between Russia and Japan, which constitutes a significant shares in the overall freight traffic.
According to Sergey Pavlov, First Deputy CEO of Russian Railways, in 2020 freight transportation between Russia and Japan amounted to record-breaking 50.2 mn tons, up 5.4% year-on-year.
48 mn tons of this traffic was Russia’s coal export to Japan accounting for almost one third of all freight traffic via the TransSiberian Railway.
Transit container traffic to/from Japan via the TransSiberian Railway in January-April 2021 surged 88% year-on-year. The TransSiberian LandBridge service offers twice as short transit time as the traditional deep sea route, S.Pavlov noted.