Volume of RGP "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" freight turnover for 7 month 2000 - 4.615 billion tenge

/Almaty office REUTERS, Aug. 10, 00/ - The press release of the "Kazakhstan temir zholy" informs that volume of freight turnover of the Republican railroads enterprise from January till July 2000 has grown by 4.7% in comparison with a similar period of the last year and has reached 4.615 billion tenges. Total amount of transit traffics for seven months of a current year has grown by 16% to a similar period of 1999 and has made 3.77 million tons. The press release informs that the company has increased volume of loading by 37.6%, to 85.731 million tons. Some parameters of the company's activity are resulted below: 7 month of 2000 to 7 month of 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tariff freight turnover (billion ton-kilometer) 68,145 +45,5 Passenger turnover (billion of passenger-kilometers) 5,938 +24,6 Passengers (million) 9,80 +13,9 Coal loading (million tons) 39,130 +32,5 Petroleum (million tons) 9,98 +22,8 Iron ore (million tons) 11,213 +86,5 Base-metal ore (million tons) 5,71 +6,0 Ferrous metals (million tons) 2,781 +24,2 Grains and flour (million tons) 4,574 +210,6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------