China’s rail freight up by 4.3 per cent in October

Rail freight volume in China, an indicator of economic activity, showed steady growth in October, the national railway operator said last week.

Railways carried 255 million tonnes of cargo last month, an increase of 4.3 percent from a year earlier, according to figures from the China Railway Corporation (CRC). In the first 10 months of the year, rail freight volume totaled 2.44 billion tonnes, up 12.8 percent on the previous year.