During the full year of 2025, the loading of export designated ferrous metals grew, Russian Railways have reported.
Railway traffic of such commodities was up 11.1% year-on-year to 24.8 mn tons including 2.7 mn tons carried in containers (85.4 thousand TEU, up 1.4-fold year-on-year).
Most of the export designated traffic, 17.4 mn tons, up 10.1% year-on-year, was carried to sea ports. 11.5 mn tons, up 13.1%, was transported to the Southern ports, 4 mn tons, up 15.9%, to the Northwestern ports, and 1.9 mn tons, down 14.8%, to the Russian Far East ports.
Ferrous metals export via railway border crossings increased 13.1% to make 7.4 mn tons.
The largest volumes of ferrous metals in 2025 were loaded onto rail in the Lipetsk (8.6 mn tons, up 11.8% year-on-year), Chelyabinsk (3.6 mn tons, up 45.1%) and Sverdlovsk (2.8 mn tons, up 25.5%) regions.
Photo: Russian Railways