Paul Goble
Staunton, June 3 – This May, Russian railways carried ten percent less cargo than they did in the same month in 2024, a record falloff in recent times in what is the most important means of cargo in that country where trucks and roads are not in a position to compensate for such declines.
The hardest hit segment of this traffic was in construction materials which fell by almost 20 percent, and there was one small bright spot: cargo carried by rail reaching the eastern ports of the Russian Federation rose by almost 20 percent, a reflection of Moscow’s turn to the east (on-news.ru/obshhestvo/rekordnyy-obval-gruzoperevozok-v-rzhd and regionvoice.ru/udar-po-gigantu-v-rzhd-pokazali-trevozhn/).
Russia’s railways seldom get much attention except when they suffer disasters as a result of infrastructure failures or attacks, but they are one of the most reliable measures of economic activity because raw materials and finished products have to be moved and in a country without an extensive highway system.
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