Loading on the Russian Railways network in January-June 2025 fell by 7.6% to 554.5 million tons compared to a year earlier. Cargo turnover decreased by 1% and amounted to 1249.9 billion tariff tonne-kilometers. This was announced by the company.
Against the background of favorable market conditions, the loading of fertilizers increased by 4.8%, primarily for export — by 27.9%.
Due to the compression of demand in the domestic market, the loading of construction goods across the Russian Railways network decreased by 19.7%, ferrous metals by 25.8% and scrap metal by 31.8%. Due to repairs at a number of refineries, the shipment of oil cargoes decreased by 5%.
In exports, the negative dynamics was caused by a decrease in the presentation of grain cargoes by 57.1% due to a reduction in gross harvest, as well as coal by 2.5% due to the continued decline in world quotations.
Significant volume losses are associated with the failure to declare goods according to already agreed transportation requests. In the first half of the year, shippers refused to load 5.4 million tons of coal in the direction of the ports of the Northwest, and 2.1 million tons in the direction of the ports of the South. For the same reason, the parameters of the agreement on the export of coal from Kuzbass to the East were not fulfilled by 0.82 million tons.
In June 2025, loading fell by 9.2% to 89.3 million tons compared to a year earlier. Cargo turnover decreased by 2.1% and amounted to 200.4 billion tariff tonne-kilometers.
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.
The net profit of Russian Railways holding in 2024 according to IFRS amounted to 50.7 billion rubles against 170.08 billion rubles a year earlier. The reduction is 70%. The total revenues of the holding increased by 9.2% to RUB 3.29 trillion.
Loading on the Russian Railways network in January-May 2025 fell by 7.3% to 465.2 million tons compared to a year earlier. Passenger traffic increased by 2.2% to 507.5 million compared to a year earlier.
