RUSSIAN Railways has been turning to open gondola rail cars to ship containers and find the solution satisfactory from the Far East, reports St Petersburg's PortNews.
'Transportation of containers in gondola cars has proved to be a good technological solution that reduces problems,' said PAO TransContainer vice president Victor Markov.
Speaking to the meeting of the working group of the International Coordinating Council on Trans-Eurasian Transportation (ICCTT), Mr Markov said it was a reasonable to use gondola cars but only on the Far East routes.
The practice of gondola services has shown their disadvantages in view of Russian logistics' specifics, said the report.
The expansion of this technology to other points where container flows start creates serious problems in the country and makes it difficult to remove empty containers, particularly from the Moscow transport hub, the busiest one in the country.
'Gondola cars which deliver imports to the capital region and leave for coal-mining regions immediately after being unloaded. Some of the containers are not removed and we already see the enormous congestion of containers in the Moscow region,' Mr Markov said.
The situation can be improved by an increase in the number of approved applications and requests for sending containers eastward to the export-forming regions of the Urals and Siberia.
Mr Markov said it is necessary to pursue the decisions made by the government in late 2022 on launching of three more container trains per day on the eastward routes.
After the country's logistics turned eastward, the problem of overloading of the Far East ports was addressed by the Ministry of Transport and Russian Railways which set up a rapid response centre to manage the forwarding of containers from port terminals in the Far East.
As Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev said at the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with government members, the possibility of increasing container transport rates for eastbound shipping in 2023 while simultaneously reducing the rates for shipments to the ports in the northwest could stabilise the situation.
According to Mr Savelyev, five container trains should leave the Far East terminals every day; discount for railway transportation of containers in gondola cars should be extended until the end of 2023; three more container trains with gondola cars per day should be launched.
'The Ministry of Transport and the business are to work out a package of measures to ensure shipment of cargo from the Far East of up to 6-6.5 thousand tonnes TEU per day,' he said.
PJSC TransContainer is among the largest intermodal container operators in Eurasia. Its fleet numbers about 113,000 containers of over 167,000 TEU and over 42,000 flatcars.
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'Transportation of containers in gondola cars has proved to be a good technological solution that reduces problems,' said PAO TransContainer vice president Victor Markov.
Speaking to the meeting of the working group of the International Coordinating Council on Trans-Eurasian Transportation (ICCTT), Mr Markov said it was a reasonable to use gondola cars but only on the Far East routes.
The practice of gondola services has shown their disadvantages in view of Russian logistics' specifics, said the report.
The expansion of this technology to other points where container flows start creates serious problems in the country and makes it difficult to remove empty containers, particularly from the Moscow transport hub, the busiest one in the country.
'Gondola cars which deliver imports to the capital region and leave for coal-mining regions immediately after being unloaded. Some of the containers are not removed and we already see the enormous congestion of containers in the Moscow region,' Mr Markov said.
The situation can be improved by an increase in the number of approved applications and requests for sending containers eastward to the export-forming regions of the Urals and Siberia.
Mr Markov said it is necessary to pursue the decisions made by the government in late 2022 on launching of three more container trains per day on the eastward routes.
After the country's logistics turned eastward, the problem of overloading of the Far East ports was addressed by the Ministry of Transport and Russian Railways which set up a rapid response centre to manage the forwarding of containers from port terminals in the Far East.
As Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev said at the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with government members, the possibility of increasing container transport rates for eastbound shipping in 2023 while simultaneously reducing the rates for shipments to the ports in the northwest could stabilise the situation.
According to Mr Savelyev, five container trains should leave the Far East terminals every day; discount for railway transportation of containers in gondola cars should be extended until the end of 2023; three more container trains with gondola cars per day should be launched.
'The Ministry of Transport and the business are to work out a package of measures to ensure shipment of cargo from the Far East of up to 6-6.5 thousand tonnes TEU per day,' he said.
PJSC TransContainer is among the largest intermodal container operators in Eurasia. Its fleet numbers about 113,000 containers of over 167,000 TEU and over 42,000 flatcars.
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