In October freight carriage totaled 920,000 tons, told Estonian Railways spokesperson Liina Hallik. The biggest freight group was fertilizers, the shipment of which grew 10% to 3.3 mln tons. The biggest decline in the 10-month period was recorded in the shipment oil and oil products where carriage dropped 51% to 3.1 mln tons. The shipment of oil shale grew by 14.6% to 1.6 mln tons and the shipment of chemical goods by 9.3% to 950,000 tons.
Transit shipments fell 28.3 % to 6.7 mln tons, while local shipments grew 4.6% to 2.2 mln tons. Import and export shipments meanwhile remained on the same level as last year, totaling 1.4 mln tons.
(Source: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/transport/?doc=125606)