Russian Railways president says Trans-Siberian freight up 23% in 2010., Russian Railways
Release Date: 2010-09-30
"In the first eight months of 2010, the total volume of large-tonnage containers on the Trans-Siberian Railway increased by 23%, of which international freight grew 45%", Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin said in his speech at a plenary session of the Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation (CCTT) in Bratislava (Slovakia).Yakunin highlighted resurgence in freight volumes in 2010 as a source of optimism.
"Despite tougher competition from sea and road transport, Russian and foreign companies are working successfully despite the economic crisis to maintain and even expand freight volumes, and are achieving positive results with their new projects", Vladimir Yakunin said.
The Russian Railways president highlighted the work of the CCTT with the European and Asian companies to attract transit freight to the Trans-Siberian. In particular, an agreement was reached on stepping up the Trans-Siberian Intermodal Operators Association of Japan (TSIOAJ), the Korea International Freight Forwarders Association (KIFFA) and the European Transsiberian Operators’ Association (GETO) to attract additional freight to the Trans-Siberian from Japan and South Korea to Europe.
A regular container train service has been launched on China – Europe – China route in order attract additional container freight, with TransContainer acting as the operator providing container transport services in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The Trans-Eurasia Logistics Company (a joint venture of Deutsche Bahn Mobility, Polzug and Kombiferker) is continuing organization of international container freight services.
A joint venture was set up in June 2010, with the support of TransContainer and DB Intermodal, to provide regular container freight services between Duisburg (Germany) and Moscow. To date, 16 container trains have used this route.
Among the new projects in 2010, Yakunin highlighted TransContanier’s container freight services for transport of car parts for Fiat from Italy to Russia under an optimized logistical scheme of only 9 days (from Villanova d'Asti and Mozzagrogna via Dobra terminal to the Tikhonovo station on Kuybyshevsky railway for Sollers-Yelabuga car assembly plant. Previously, these parts had been shipped to the Novorossiysk port and then off to Yelabuga.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | Russian Railways |
| Country: | Russian Federation |