Having carried 1·9 million tonnes of freight in the first five months of this year, an astonishing 43% up on the same period in 1996, freight concessionaire Nuevo Central Argentino is expecting to see another 600000 tonnes a year move over the former General Mitré network from October. Minera Alumbrera is to start running its own trains of copper concentrate over 960 km of NCA metals between Cruz del Norte in the province of Tucum

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