Significant infrastructure investments pays off for Latvian Railways

Latvian Railways (LDz) transported 55.8 million tons in 2013,  which is a decrease of 7.9% compared to 2012 historic freight record of 60.6 million tonnes.

Most of the transported cargo originated from Russia (77.1%) and Belarus (12.6%), followed by Kazakhstan (4.8%), Lithuania (4%) and Ukraine (0.7%).

In the first quarter of 2014, the volume of cargo transported by rail in Latvia totaled 17.04 million tons, a 7.6% increase on the first three months of 2013, according to the Transport Ministry’s data.