Loading on the Russian Railways network in 2025 amounted to 1.116 billion tons, which is 5.6% less than in the previous year. This is stated in the company's message.
Fertilizers (+3.8%), non-ferrous ore and sulfur raw materials (+5.1%) showed positive dynamics.
Under the influence of a number of external negative factors, loading of construction goods decreased by 10.5%, ferrous metals by 17.7% and coal by 2.1%.
Due to the repairs at the refinery, the shipment of oil cargoes decreased by 5%.
Grain cargo loading decreased by 12.2%. This is due to the unfavorable weather conditions of the previous year. They had a negative impact on the grain harvest, which was mainly claimed by rail transport in the first half of the year. Against this background, an increase in cargo exports was recorded in the most popular eastern direction — by 6.5% to 163.5 million tons.
Exports of non—coal cargoes to the east increased by 7.6% to 45.3 million tons, including fertilizers by 62.6%, oil and petroleum products by 4.3%, iron ore by 9.2%, and goods transported in containers by 13%. Coal exports to the east also increased by 6.1%.
In December 2025, loading on the Russian Railways network fell by 4.8% to 94.5 million tons. Grain shipments increased by 34.1%, iron and manganese ore — by 0.3%, non—ferrous ore and sulfur raw materials - by 1.8%, and industrial raw materials — by 1.7%.
JSC "Russian Railways" (TIN 7708503727) was established on October 1, 2003 on the basis of the Ministry of Railways. The state owns 100% of the company's shares.
Russian Railways is one of the leaders in the social efficiency rating of the largest Russian companies presented by AK&M.
The net profit of Russian Railways for 9 months of 2025 according to IFRS amounted to 24.9 billion rubles. EBITDA increased by 13.7% to 808.1 billion rubles. The total revenues of the holding increased by 10.6% to RUB 2,706.3 billion. Operating expenses amounted to 2272.8 billion rubles.
