ADY Express transports about 6 million tons of cargo in 2021

The main goal of ADY Express LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, is to increase freight traffic volume by rail in the country. Over the past year, ADY Express has carried out the transportation of goods in various transportation directions – export, import, transit and domestic, Report informs, citing the LLC.

In total, the company transported 5,716,845 tons of cargo by rail in 2021. Of these, 427,032 tons were domestic cargo, 1,559,620 tons for import, 2,258,609 tons for export and 1,471,584 tons for transit cargo.

As the statistics show, most of the cargo accounted for export cargo. The destinations of these cargoes were mainly Italy, Russia, Georgia and Brazil. As for the type of cargo, most exports were nitrogen fertilizers, diesel, bitumen and tar, other oil products and fruits and vegetables.

Russia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are the main sources of cargo transported by ADY Express in import mode. In this mode, more wheat, wood products, sugar, gasoline and ferrous metals were transported.

In transit, ADY Express LLC carried out cargo transportation mainly between Russia-Turkey, Russia-Georgia, Russia-Iran and Central Asian countries, and between Georgia and Turkey. Basically, nitrogen fertilizers, gasoline, oil products, metal cargo and mineral water were transported in this type of cargo.