In August 2025, the loading of export designated ferrous metals grew, Russian Railways have reported. Railway traffic of such commodities was up 14.4% year-on-year to 2.2 mn tons.
During January-August 2025, export designated ferrous metals traffic amounted to 16.6 mn tons including 1.8 mn tons carried in containers (56.4 thousand TEU, up 1.6-fold year-on-year).
Export ferrous metals nomenclatures includes various sorts of rolled steel, iron sheets, stock steel, slabs and other products.
Most of the export designated traffic, 11.8 mn tons, up 15.9% year-on-year, was carried to sea ports. 7.4 mn tons, up 16.9%, was transported to the Southern ports, 2.7 mn tons, up 25.2%, to the Northwestern ports, and 1.5 mn tons, up 4.6%, to the Russian Far East ports.
Ferrous metals export via railway border crossings increased 14.5% to make 4.8 mn tons.
The largest volumes of ferrous metals in January-August 2025 were loaded onto rail in the Lipetsk (5.7 mn tons, up 14.4% year-on-year), Chelyabinsk (2.3 mn tons, up 44.7%) and Sverdlovsk (1.9 mn tons, up 38.4%) regions.
Photo: Russian Railways