The chief of Irkutsk Agency of transport service JSC "FGC" Evgeny Korolev reported that a significant increase in loading in the gondolas provided coal and ores, as well as increased imports from China.

"The growth in shipments of coal for needs of the enterprises of housing and communal services achieved through organized by JSC "FGC" circular routes from stations Krasnokamensk, Petrovsky Plant Priargunsk and other. In addition, we have provided the minimum term of rolling stock with coal at the border crossing Manchuria-Zabaikalsk. Thus, improving the efficiency of fleet management has allowed us in the first quarter of 2019 to increase the loading of coal by 34% compared to last year, to 387,3 thousand tons", – said Evgeny Korolev.

He noted that in February of 2019. we began loading our product mining and processing plant "Bystrinsky" in gondola cars of JSC "FGK" for export to China, which also affected the overall performance of the Company at the site of the Transbaikalian railway.d. In the I quarter of 2019 transported 134,8 thousand tons of ore from the station Borzya.

The volume of imports from China through the border crossing Manchuria-Zabaikalsk increased by 67% to 72.6 thousand tons, mainly due to the increase in the loading of sheet steel and electrodes.