ČD Cargo continues to dominate the Czech rail freight transport

ČD Cargo continues to dominate the Czech rail freight transport
© ČD Cargo

The market share of ČD Cargo totalled 54.62% last year.


While the first two positions remained unchanged, the situation in the other top ten places has changed considerably. 

As in the previous year, the Czech national carrier ČD Cargo leads the freight transport market with 17.5 billion gross tonne-kilometres. Metrans Rail remains in second place with almost three billion gross tonne-kilometres. 

And a newcomer in the third place is Orlen Unipetrol Transport with 1.6 billion gross tonne-kilometres.

Company Gross tonne-kilometes Market share (%)
ČD Cargo 17 481 879 517 54.62
Metrans Rail 2 994 979 793 9.36
Orlen Unipetrol Transport 1 633 119 764 5.10
LOKORAIL 1 493 005 078 4.66
Rail Cargo Carrier - Czech Republic 1 450 091 429 4.53
PKP Cargo International 1 260 030 164 3.94
IDS Cargo 870 692 831 2.72
DB Cargo Czechia 718 500 313 2.24
Retrack Czech 668 405 705 2.09
RM Lines 501 659 093 1.57

The data comes from Správa železnic, the Czech state provider of national and regional railway infrastructure.

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