OREANDA-NEWS. February 15, 2011. Freight One shipped 850 thousand tons of coal in January 2011 from the strip mines of the Krasnoyarsk territory and Khakassia. Shipments increased by 2.12 times compared with the same period last year.

More than half (58%) of Freight One shipments in January were to companies in the housing and utilities sector. On average, Freight One shipped 228 gondola cars of coal per day within the reaches of the Krasnoyarsk railway in January to companies in the housing and utilities sector.

A significant portion (more than 70%) of all of Freight One’s coal shipments were in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal districts. A significant volume of these shipments was made to regional thermal power plants that supply heat and electricity to the population and industrial centers of Eastern Siberia, Trans-Baikal and the Far East. Up to a third of Siberian coal went to the European part of Russia.

In 2010, Freight One hauled more than 6.6 million tons of coal from the strip mines of the Krasnoyarsk territory and Khakassia. Overall, shipping volumes in Freight One’s gondola cars on the Krasnoyarsk railway, where the coal producers of the Krasnoyarsk territory and Khakassia are located, increased in January 2011 up to 18.2 thousand (in January 2010, 9 thousand gondola cars were loaded).