Decrease in loading of grain on Russian Railway network is connected with export reduction
The president of the Russian grain union Arkady Zlochevsky does not consider decrease in indicators of loading of grain on Russian Railway network catastrophic. Let's remind how earlier reported the Partner Russian Railway, loading of grain on Russian Railway network in June decreased to 0.8 million tons. This indicator is 63% less, than for the same period of last year.
"It is necessary to measure grain loading indicators not by the semi-annual periods. At us advanced shipments in the fall, the season remains – from July to December. Naturally, in the second half of agricultural year the natural kickback, some kind of compensation is observed. The harvest was less, than the previous year. Everything is normal. There is no falling. We lowered the shown freights in the Russian Railway in proportion, according to the received harvest", – he explained.
A. Zlochevsky added that in this season the harvest will be more, than the previous year. And, therefore, to transportations bigger volume will be shown. Respectively, growth of transportations will be fixed.
The expert-analyst of JSC Finam Alexey Kalachev adds: most decrease in an indicator of loading of grain can be connected with reduction of export of the Russian grain. The harvest of last year appeared less record harvest of 2017 for 17% – in the 2018th 112.9 million tons of grain against 135.5 million tons were collected the previous year. Consumption in the country could not decrease also considerably therefore the main falling was the share of export, he notes.