VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- About 200 freight trains are stuck at port cities in Russia's Far East region as new year holidays rob operators of labor, local media reported on Tuesday.

    Some 10,500 freight cars loaded with coal and oil products were held up at the Primorye Territory and the Khabarovsk Territory, due to a lack of workers and port shutdowns for the new year vacation.

    Recent blizzards in some Far Eastern regions further added to the railway traffic jam.

    The Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline currently ends at Skovorodino in the Amur Region and rail is used to transport the crude oil it carries the rest of the way to the port of Kozmino near the Pacific city of Vladivostok.