DUSHANBE, December 9, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- The overall volume of rail shipments of the Russian Federation with Central Asia’s states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) rose 17 percent in the year to October 1, 2008, reaching 85.8 million tons, website of Russia’s Gudok (Hooter), which is an official newspaper of Russian Railways, reported.

In the meantime, shipments of Russia with Tajikistan over the report period has risen 23.5 percent, reaching 1.6 million tons.  This consisted of Tajikistan’s exports estimated at 52.7 percent, Tajikistan’s imports accounting for 9.2 percent of the overall volume of Tajik-Russian rail shipments and transit traffic via Tajikistan accounting for 38.1 percent, according to Gudok .      

Russian-Kazakh rail shipments rose 17 percent in the year to October 1, 2008, reaching 77.2 million tons. 

Russian-Kyrgyz rail shipments over the report period have risen 20.6 percent, reaching 1.8 million tons, Russian-Turkmen rail shipments have risen 11.8 percent to 954,600 tons, and Russian-Uzbek rail shipments have risen 19 percent to 4.2 million tons.