Public Joint Stock Company 'TransContainer' announced preliminary operating results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2017. For the quarter, the company's rail container transportation volumes in Russia were up 17.7% year-on-year to 1,051 thousand twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). This was driven by a 26.5% year-on-year growth in international transportation demonstrating the sustainable growth across all segments. Domestic transportation increased by 8.6% year-on-year despite the growth in Russia's manufacturing industries slowing down in the fourth quarter. For the full year of 2017, the Russian rail container market grew by 19.0% year-on-year to 3,882 thousand TEU. In terms of segment breakdown for the full year period, domestic transportation volumes grew by 7.6% year-on-year, export transportation increased by 20.6% year-on-year, while import and transit transportation volumes surged by 32.9% and 60.3%, respectively.