9.2 million tons of freight in December is a result nearly 2 percent better than the previous year (9.0 million tons) and 12.9 percent better than the freight plan predicted (8.1 million tons). Freight transport performance in December amounted to 2.38 billion nt km, which is 2.4 percent more than in 2009 and 8.3 percent more than the plan assumed. In the entire year 2010, PKP CARGO transported 119.36 million tons of goods, compared to 104.61 million tons in 2009 (an increase of 14.1 percent). This is only 10.9 percent less than in the pre-crisis year 2008 (133.97 million tons). At the same time, it is over 8 percent above the plan, which assumed freight at the level of 110.4 million tons. The company’s freight transport performance amounted to 31.53 billion nt km, compared to 28.2 billion nt km the previous year (an increase of 11.8 percent) and 30.25 billion nt km assumed in the 2010 freight plan (an excess of 4.3 percent). Broken down by commodity groups, the largest increases last year were in the transport of coke and lignite (an increase of 47.3 percent, to 7.97 million tons), artificial fertilizers (an increase of 43.6 percent, to 2.75 million tons), wood and wood products (an increase of 31.4 percent, to 3.7 million tons), ores and pyrites (an increase of 23.8 percent, to 3.17 million tons), and crude oil and its derivatives (an increase of 23.4 percent, to 3.34 million tons). Conversely, transport of sand and agricultural produce, excluding grain, decreased. Traditionally, the largest share in PKP CARGO’s transport was hard coal, of which the company transported 52.6 million tons, 11.5 percent more than the previous year, which accounts for 44 percent of all transport carried out by the company. Other major commodity groups were stone, gravel, and lime (20.38 million tons, 17.1 percent share), metals and metal products (10 million tons, 8.4 percent share), and coke and lignite (7.97 million tons, 6.7 percent share).