Rail freight transport punctuality down to 36% in Q2

The average time for delays of freight trains in the second quarter of this year increased to almost 10.5 hours. - said the Office of Rail Transport (UTK) on Thursday. In the quarter before the average delay was 9 hours. Punctuality of rail freight transport dropped to 36 percent in Q2 from 38 percent in Q1. The office added that in Q2 2018 there were mostly freight trains delayed over 120 minutes (in total 77 percent) while in the same period of 2017, it was 73.1 percent.