In January – May 2025, 16.9 million tons of freight were transported through rail border crossings with China in export-import traffic, which is 0.9% higher than the figure for the same five-month period last year.

The volume of cargo exported via the Russian Railways’ network amounted to 15.9 million tons, an increase of 1.9%, including via the junctions Zabaikalsk (RF) – Manchuria (PRC), which was up 1.2% to 8.6 million tons, Grodekovo (RF) – Suifenhe (PRC), up 9.7% to 3.7 million tons, Nizhneleninskoye (RF) – Tongjiang (PRC), a 14.3% increase to 2.5 million tons, and Kamyshovaya (RF) – Hunchun (PRC), which recorded a 35.2% decline to 980,000 tons.

Coal usually accounts for a significant volume of export transportation (36.2%). During the five months from January to May 2025, 7 million tons of solid fuel were shipped via Russia’s border crossings with China.

Other increases in cargo volume included iron ore, up 22.1% to 3.6 million tons, paper, which saw a rise of 21.4% to 1.6 million tons, fertilisers, growth of 2.2 times to 978,000 tons, chemicals, up 21.5% to 574,000 tons, non-ferrous metals, growth of 1.8 times to 515,000 tons and oil cargo, growth of 1.4 times to 417,000 tons.