Tbilisi (GBC) - In the I quarter of 2025, rail transported 3 million tons of freight, which is 6.8% less than the respective figure of the previous year. 8.4 percent of the total freight was transported domestically, 33.6 percent was transported internationally (excluding transit), and 58.0 percent was transit.
In the I quarter of 2025, the share of incoming freight represented 74.1 percent of the railwaytransported freights, while the share of outgoing freight was 25.9 percent.
In the I quarter of 2025, the sender country of 51 percent of total incoming rail freight was Russian Federation, 23.2 percent was sent by Azerbaijan. The share of other countries sending cargo was less than ten percent each (25.8 percent combined).
In the I quarter of 2025, Russian Federation was the final destination for 12.8 percent of total outgoing freight, for 9.1 percent - Armenia, for 8.0 percent - Kazakhstan.
The share of other individual receiving countries was relatively small (70.1 percent combined). The breakdown of the total transit freight1 by the final destination country was as follows: the Turkey - 13.2 percent, Netherlands - 9.7 percent, Ukraine - 5.3 percent, China - 3.8 percent, Romania - 3.3 percent, Italy - 2.5 percent, USA - 0.8 percent, and elsewhere was for the rest. In the same period, Brazil was the sender country of 3.3 percent of the total transit freight, Turkey - 2.3 percent, Greece - 2.2 percent, and other countries sent the rest. In the reporting period, 34.5 percent of the total freight were coke and refined petroleum products, 20.6 percent were chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers; rubber and plastic products, and 17.8 percent were metal ores and other mining and quarrying products.
The distribution by type of goods was different in case of freights transported domestically in the I quarter of 2025, as the share of metal ores and other mining and quarrying products equaled 55.3 percent of total, and the share of coke and refined petroleum products amounted to 27.1 percent; while the share of transport equipment amounted to 7.4 percent.
As for the freights transported internationally, in the reporting period, incoming goods were mainly coke and refined petroleum products (49.3 percent), other nonmetallic mineral products (18.5 percent), basic metals (7.1 percent), metal ores and other mining and quarrying products (6.6 percent), coal and lignite; crude petroleum and natural gas (5.8 percent), products of agriculture, hunting, and forestry (5.1 percent) and chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers (3.2 percent); while outgoing goods were mainly chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers (42.1 percent), food products, beverages and tobacco (29.1 percent), metal ores and other mining and quarrying products (11.4 percent) and basic metals (6.7 percent).
In the I quarter of 2025, three type of goods, namely coke and refined petroleum products (33.8 percent), chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers (27.8 percent), and metal ores and other mining and quarrying products (18.2 percent) constituted for 79.8 percent of the total volume of transit freight.
