In the first three quarters, the railway freight volume exceeded 2.5bn tons

In the first three quarters of 2019, 2.503 billion tons of goods were delivered by national railway, an increase of 6.19% year on year. Among them, 289 million tons were completed in September, up 6% year on year. In the first three quarters, 5 of the 18 Railway Bureau Group Companies in China saw an increase of more than 10%, among which Urumqi Railway Bureau and Xi'an Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. saw an increase of more than 20%. In the first eight months and the first three quarters, the growth rate of national railway freight is 6.19%, which is exactly the same, showing that the growth potential of current railway freight is gradually shrinking. From the perspective of the annual plan, in 2019, China Railway Group will complete 3.368 billion tons of national railway freight volume, with a year-on-year growth of 5.58%, and the freight volume in the first nine months has completed 74.32% of the annual plan. "At present, the railway freight volume is basically the same as the planned volume, and China Railway Group is very confident to achieve the annual goal." People from China Railway Group said. On the annual railway transportation task, recently the National Railway Group held a teleconference.

At the meeting, Lu Dongfu, chairman of the board of directors of the National Railway Group, said that in order to ensure the realization of the annual task goal, the "Three Guarantees and three increases" battle was carried out in the whole railway from September to the end of the year. Lu Dongfu stressed that we should make more efforts to increase freight transportation and make up for the shortage, stabilize bulk and white goods, deeply tap the potential of "six lines and six regions", strengthen the transportation organization of busy trunk lines and key regions, increase the volume and revenue of container transportation, cold chain transportation and multimodal transportation, maximize the benefit of the whole road, and ensure an 8% increase in the benefit of passenger and freight transportation throughout the year. The railway freight volume will continue to increase in 2019. In the first quarter, the first half and the first three quarters, the year-on-year growth rate of national railway freight volume was 2.9%, 5.62% and 6.19% respectively, but compared with the freight growth rate of 7.92% in the first three quarters of 2018, it also shows that the current freight growth rate is weak. According to the action plan for freight increment in 2018-2020 issued by the predecessor of China Railway Corporation in July 2018, by 2020, the national railway freight volume will increase by 30% compared with that in 2017, that is to say, it will reach 4.796 billion tons. Among them, coal transportation is the top priority, accounting for nearly 60% of the total freight volume, reaching 2.81 billion tons, accounting for 75% of the national coal production, and the proportion of bulk cargo volume to the total railway freight volume remains stable at more than 90%.