OREANDA-NEWS. May 23, 2008. In January-April, throughput of Russian transport system grew by 5.5%, year-on-year, to 1.688.9 billion t-km, the report of Federal Statistics Service reports. Throughput of railway transport amounted to 737.6 billion t-km (+8.5%); automobile transport – 65.6 billion t-km (+3.2 %); maritime transport – 24.9 billion t-km (+57.7%); inland waterway transport – 3.7 billion t-km (-54.5%); air transport – 1.2 billion t-km (+3.8%), pipeline – 855.9 billion t-km (+2.7%).