Brazil · Companies

Key Facts

—The number. Rumo, Brazil’s largest rail-freight operator, moved 23.8 billion TKU in the second quarter, up from 21.8 billion a year earlier.

—The driver. Grain, especially soybeans (more than 4 billion TKU in June alone), led the volumes.

—The beat. The result topped BTG Pactual’s estimate of about 23 billion TKU.