Last year, PKP Cargo transported over 130 million tons of cargo.
Over the past 12 months, the company transported 130.5 million tons of goods, 9.1 percent more than in 2010 (119.6 million tons). The achieved result is over 11 percent better than the original plan, and also 1.6 percent higher than the transport forecast of 128.4 million tons, which was adjusted in the second half of the year. Transport performance in this period amounted to 33.96 billion ntkm, 7.5 percent more than a year earlier (31.59 billion ntkm) and 1.3 percent more than the upwardly adjusted forecast (33.52 billion ntkm).
By far the largest increase, by more than half, was recorded in 2011 for the transport of aggregates, reaching 31.1 million tons, compared to 20.4 million tons a year earlier. As a result, the share of aggregates, i.e., stone, gravel, and lime, in the company’s total transport increased from 17.1 percent to 23.8 percent. Hard coal remains the most important commodity group for the company’s transport, with PKP Cargo transporting 52.5 million tons in 2011, practically the same as the year before.
Other commodity groups whose transport grew fastest in 2011 were intermodal transport (an increase of 32 percent, to 4.2 million tons), cement (an increase of 15.3 percent, to 2.7 million tons), and sand (an increase of 40.7 percent, to 0.45 million tons).
In December 2011 alone, PKP Cargo transported 10.3 million tons of cargo, 12.1 percent more than in the same month of 2010 (9.2 million tons), and as much as 17.3 percent more than the upwardly adjusted transport forecast for that month. The very good results in December were partly due to the mild weather, which allowed road construction work and the delivery of aggregates to continue.