Editing Tranz Rail (section)

==Performance==
[[File:DC4398 shunts milk tanks at Oringi 11th December 2008.jpg|thumb|200px|Tranz Rail introduced bulk milk trains during the late 1990s.<ref name="milk">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=2145|title=Tranz Rail dips but rebound promised|date=5 February 1999|accessdate=6 March 2012|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|archive-date=7 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107192103/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=2145|url-status=live}}</ref> Here a [[New Zealand DC class locomotive|DC class]] locomotive shunts OM class milk wagons at [[Oringi]] on 11 December 2008.]]
The total number of tonnes transported by New Zealand Rail and Tranz Rail from 1995 increased between 1993 and 2003, peaking in 2000.<ref name="freight study" />

Rail freight volumes 1993{{dash}}2003 (year ending 30 June):<ref name="freight study">{{cite web|url=http://www.transport.govt.nz/research/Documents/FreightStudyComplete.pdf|title=New Zealand Freight Study|date=September 2008|accessdate=16 September 2015|publisher=[[Ministry of Transport (New Zealand)|Ministry of Transport]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605111406/http://www.transport.govt.nz/research/Documents/FreightStudyComplete.pdf|archive-date=5 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" width="70%" style="font-size: 95%;"
!width=20%|Year
!width=20%|Tonnes (000s)
!width=20%|Net tonne-km (millions)
!width=20%|Average length of haul (km)
|-
|1993
|8,514
|2,468
|290
|-
|1994 
|9,444 
|2,835 
|300
|-
|1995
|9,584
|3,202
|334
|-
|1996
|10,305
|3,260
|316
|-
|1997
|11,525
|3,505
|304
|-
|1998
|11,706
|3,547
|303
|-
|1999
|12,900
|3,671
|285
|-
|2000
|14,699
|4,078
|277
|-
|2001
|14,461
|3,942
|273
|-
|2002
|14,330
|3,766
|263
|-
|2003
|13,702
|3,692
|269
|}