First Cargo starts shipping oil products to Mongolia

Russia’s First Cargo Co., a subsidiary of state-owned railroad monopoly Russian Railways, said it has started transporting oil products to Mongolia in central Asia. The first shipment has been sent from the Sukhovskaya-Yuzhnaya station of the East Siberian Railroad to the Naushki station in the constituent republic of Buryatia at the Russian border with Mongolia. First Cargo said it planned to transport about 22,000 tons of gasoline and diesel fuel to Mongolia before the end of April. (April 16, 2009)