China's daily railway freight volume sets record high in March

2012 04 12

 

CHINA registered record-breaking 11.06 million tonnes in its daily railway cargo volume in March while the number of loaded railcars also climbed to a new high of 172,883 cars a day, Xinhua reports.

China needed 228,000 rail cars per day in March, 37,000 cars more than in February. Railway cargo totalled 344.21 million tonnes, up two per cent over February. Both Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company posted a freight volume increase of 14.8 per cent while the Nanning Railway Bureau grew 12.6 per cent.

In the passenger traffic, China moved 145 million people by rail in March, up 2.7 per cent. Eight railway bureaux recorded growth in passenger volume. Leading in growth was the Jinan bureau up 15.2 per cent and the Urumqi bureau up 13.6 per cent.

Source Shipping Gazette - Daily Shipping News

 

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