LITHUANIA is a crossroads for freight traffic between the Black Sea and the Baltic and east-west routes from Russia to Western Europe. This means that despite the relatively modest size of its railway network, the country punches well above its weight when it comes to moving freight by rail. In 2012, Lithuanian Railways (LG) carried 14.17 billion tonne-km of freight on its 1767km 1520mm-gauge system, placing it tenth in the European railfreight rankings.