Over the past month, the shipment of metals through the Russian Railways network was equal to the volume of the previous year and amounted to about one hundred million tons. From January to July, loading fell by an average of one and a half percent, which exceeds 700 million tons. Of the total volume, about 60 million tons are accounted for by ores - manganese and iron. This part is much larger than for the same time last year. At the same time, shipment of ferrous metal also fell - scrap fell by 8 million tons, and pure raw materials - by almost four percent.