The volume of cargo transportation by the Lemtrans freight forwarding company reduced by 4.3% to 44.6 million tons in the period of January-September 2016, compared with 46.5 million tons in the corresponding period of 2015.
According to the company, it transported 17.9 million tons of coal in the first nine months of 2016 (a reduction of 12.7% compared with the first nine months of 2015), 15.1 million tons of iron ore (a reduction of 7.9%), 5.6 million tons of ferrous metals (an increase of 19.1%), 3 million tons of flux (an increase of 25%), and 2.3 million tons of coke (an increase of 53.3%).
The Lemtrans limited liability company is the largest private freight forwarding company in Ukraine. It offers the full range of services involving transportation of goods by rail. Its main areas of operation are forwarding services involving domestic and export/import cargo and repair of rolling stock.
The SCM Group owns 100% of the shares in Lemtrans.