The Yakutia Railways (Yakutia) company transported 1.4 times more cargo in January 2024 than in the same period last year, the press service of the head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and the government of the Sakha Republic reported. (Yakutia). 26 of February.
The volume of freight transportation by rail reached 747.4 thousand tons, 40% more than in the first month of 2023. Most of it corresponded to coal cargo, whose volume increased by 40% compared to January of last year, reaching 540.8 thousand tons. Of them, 540 thousand were sent from coal mining enterprises in southern Yakutia outside the republic.
The transportation of “other cargo” multiplied by 2.2, the volume of which reached 58 thousand tons. Container transportation increased by 60% and reached almost 33 thousand tons. More than 65 thousand tons of petroleum products were transported, with an increase of 3%. Construction cargo was transported 1.6 times more – 10.0 thousand tons.
We remind you that the Amur-Yakutskaya Railway (AYM) is a railway in the east of Russia, connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway (Trans-Siberian) and the Baikal-Amur Main Line (BAM) with Yakutia.
Having become the support for the construction of the main section of the BAM, in 1979 the southern section of the AYAM (Little BAM) was built from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Berkakit and Neryungri. The central section of AYAM from Neryungri to Tommot was built in 2004. The northern section, built in 2011 in Nizhny Bestyakh, connects the central regions of the republic and the city of Yakutsk with the Russian railway network. The maximum option provides for the construction of a railway line from Nizhny Bestyakh to Magadan, which in the long term will create the opportunity to extend it to Anadyr and Uelen in Chukotka, for the implementation of the tunnel project under the Bering Strait.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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