CARGO BUSINESS 1-10.indd - ZSSK Cargo

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Company TransContainer is a Russian leader in transportations of
containers by rail. Its market share in Russia has reached around
67%. Its main activities include transportation of containers by rail,
services in rail terminals, transportations of goods, logistics, as well
as transportations by trucks – this is how the representative of this
company – Director for International Projects Jurij Jurijev introduced
his presentation in the conference held by ZSSK CARGO “Trade Year
2010”.
TransContainer is the biggest owner of railway wagons for transporting
containers and terminals throughout Russia. It owns 24 700 platform
wagons, 59 100 containers, 47 rail container terminals and 400
trucks. It has created a network of 140 representative offices and
agent companies in Russia and CIS countries and also in Europe
and Asia. In the first half of 2009, almost half of the revenues of
TransContainer were made up of transportations of containers by rail.
The range of customers of the company is diversified, none of them
having a share higher than 7% in its revenues. It cooperates with
global logistics companies such as Maersk, Sinacor, Unico Logistics,
and so on. Its regular customers include multinational companies,
such as Ilim Group, Rusal, Volkswagen, General Motors, Kia Motors,
LG Electronics...
Corridor V
Traditional transport route of goods from Asia to Moscow runs
through ports in the North and Baltic Seas. This route is 22 thousand
kilometres long and takes 45 to 50 days. The new route, used by
TransContainer, offers transhipment of containers in the northern
Adriatic ports of Trieste, Koper, Rijeka and subsequent transport
by rail along the international corridor V. This route is 18 thousand
kilometres long and takes 31 days. Corridor V begins in the Italian
Trieste and continues via Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Ukraine
(Trieste - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Budapest - Chop - Kiev). The corridor has
two other branches: Va – from Bratislava via Chop to Lviv and Vb - from
Budapest to Bosnia (Osijek - Sarajevo - Ploče). The total length of the
corridor is 1 595 km. According to a recent agreement concluded
between the participating railways, the corridor should be extended
towards the west (France, Spain, and Portugal) and east (via Moscow
to Japan and Korea, through Kharkov, Penza and Kazakhstan to China,
via Dnepropetrovsk and Volgograd to Iran and India).
Transportation of containers along the corridor V can be developed in
two directions: either as transportation from Europe to Asia or from
Asian countries via Adriatic ports to Russia. According to marketing
surveys, traffic flows from Eastern Europe to Russia come from
countries such as Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech
Republic. Monthly volume of container transportations from these
countries via combined transport terminal Dobrá ranges from 1 000
to 1500 TEU (container units) with an increase up to 10% annually.
Within the plans of TransContainer to develop transportations along
the transport corridor Va, the combined transport terminal Dobrá
has a key role, since it is located in the corridor on border of railway
gauges - normal and broad. The potential for transportations along the
rail corridor V is obvious also in truck transport from Italy to Russia.
The volume of transportations was at the level of 45 to 55 thousand
tonnes per month in 2008.
FELB
FELB is a logistics project on transportation of containers on the route
China - Europe - China. The project successfully develops container
transportations between continents in cooperation with Russian,
Chinese and European railway undertakings. Business model aims at
attracting the customers who use the services of maritime forwarding
companies. The offer should be applied to the entire transport
route - from the customer’s warehouse to the destination location,
transportation time from China to Europe is shorter - only about 3
weeks and prices are comparable to marine transportation.
Know-how of the project is based on transportation of single wagon
shipments, provision of transportation documents, cooperation
with service providers on the entire route and close cooperation
with TransContainer in terminals along the Russian-Chinese border
(Zabajkalsk) and Europe (Dobrá). FELB shall provide services to
various customers who use door to door services in the field of
automotive industry, furniture, electronics and many more.
Ladislav JANDOŠEK
Preprava kontajnerov z Ázie do Ruska po mori. Nová cesta vedie z prístavov
v Jadranskom mori po medzinárodnom železničnom koridore č. V. Klasická
cesta obchádza Európu (na mape vyznačená prerušovanou čiarou).
Transportation of containers from Asia to Russia by sea. The new route
runs from the port in Adriatic sea along the international railway corridor V.
Traditional route bypasses Europe (on the map, it is marked in dashed line).
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