Transport operations carried out by PKP CARGO in October were 6.8 percent higher than a year earlier (10.86 million tons) and exceeded the company’s plan for this month (10.52 million tons) by 10.3 percent. October was also 2.9 percent better than September (11.27 million tons), which had been the best month of the year in terms of transport volume until then. Cumulatively, after ten months of the year, transport volume amounted to 98.73 million tons, compared to 85.37 million tons in the corresponding period of the previous year (an increase of 15.7 percent). This is also 6.4 percent more than the transport plan assumed. Transport performance in the period from January to October 2010 amounted to 26.25 billion nt km, compared to 23.21 billion nt km a year earlier, which means an increase of 13.1 percent. Broken down by commodity groups, after ten months, the largest increases were recorded in the transport of coke and lignite (60.8 percent), artificial fertilizers (44.6 percent), ores and pyrites (38 percent), wood and wood products (37.9 percent), and crude oil and its derivatives (29.3 percent). Transport of hard coal, which consistently remains the most important commodity group in the structure of PKP CARGO’s transport, increased by 14 percent. The share of hard coal in the company’s total transport is 44.1 percent. Other major commodity groups are: stone, gravel, and lime (16.7 percent share in transport), metals and metal products (8.5 percent), and coke and lignite (6.9 percent).