OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2010. In Q1’2010 JSC Freight One shipped 1.16 million tonnes of coal from stations along the Krasnoyarsk railway. It also achieved a dominant fourfold increase in haulage operations in the region, as compared with the total amount of coal shipments from the Krasnoyarsk region and Khakassia on the domestic market, which grew 25% in Q1.

A significant portion (78.5%) of all Freight One’s coal haulage operations fell to Siberia and Russia’s Far East. The main bulk of deliveries were made to regional fuel and energy utilities to provide heat and electricity for the public and industrial facilities in the Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk and Primorsk regions and the Republic of Buryatia. 21.5% of deliveries of Siberian coal were made to the European part of Russia.

Freight One’s coal haulage operations in railcars from the Krasnoyarsk region and Khakassia increased over the most recent heating season (September 2009 — March 2010) by 45%. Over this period Freight One hauled approximately 3.028 million tonnes of coal. The growth in coal haulage is due to increased demand from consumers in the prolonged wintry conditions in Siberia as well as the additional requirements of regional fuel and energy utitilies replacing lost capacity from the Sayno-Shushensk hydro-power plant. Another major factor was the enlargement of Freight One’s fleet of gondola cars — from 47,000 at the beginning of 2008 to 55,000 by 2010 — which allowed the company to expand its haulage operations along Russia’s railway network.