CARGO BUSINESS 1-10.indd - ZSSK Cargo

Transported commodities
Most transported commodities loaded and unloaded in the district
of freight transport centre Nitra are as follows: dangerous goods
according to RID (acids, lye, carbide mixtures, diesel, ethanol), coal,
limestone, wood, methyl ester, scrap metal, crushed stone, plastic
products, roadway supports, rolled sheets, grain, vegetal products,
paper products, salt, coke, lime, military material and metallurgical
material.
Freight Transport Centre Nitra is one of the largest centres in the
district of regional transportation administration Bratislava. It is
divided into three transportation districts: Nitra, Prievidza and
Leopoldov.
There are 141 permanent employees. 76 of them belong to the
train staff. They are in charge of handling trains operations and
shunting in all operated stations. One exception is the railway station
(RWSt.) Nováky, where daily shunting activities are provided by ŽSR
employees.
Track sections
The centre provides activities related to transportations in the
following track sections:
- Ivanka pri Nitre – Nitra – Lužianky – Prievidza – Nitrianske Pravno,
- Prievidza – Handlová,
- Lužianky – Zbehy – Leopoldov,
- Zbehy – Radošina,
- Leopoldov – Piešťany – Nové Mesto nad Váhom,
- Nové Mesto nad Váhom – Myjava,
- Trnava – Šelpice – Smolenice,
- Trnava – Cífer – Bratislava-Rača,
- Trnava – Sereď
- Sereď – Siladice.
NITRA
Freight transport centre Nitra provides the operation in 33 tariff
points. Thirteen of them – Nitra, Ivanka pri Nitre, Lužianky, Topoľčany,
Veľké Uherce, Zemianske Kostoľany, Nováky, Prievidza, Handlová,
Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Piešťany, Leopoldov, Hlohovec – operate as
occupied tariff points. Unoccupied points are as follows: Zbehy, Čab
– Sila, Nové Sady, Veľké Ripňany, Radošina, Ludanice, Koniarovce,
Bošany, Chynorany, Veľké Bielice, Oslany, Bystričany, Nitrianske
Pravno, Chrenovec, Čachtice, Vaďovce, Stará Turá, Myjava, Veľké
Kostoľany and Rišňovce.
In the entire freight transport centre Nitra, it is possible for the
customers to load, unload and handle the consignments on sidings
as well as on general loading and unloading tracks in the stations,
except the tariff points Zbehy, Čab - Sila and Oslany. The district has
41 sidings available, all of them are functional.
Services, technical equipment
All tariff points in freight transport centre Nitra are equipped with side
platforms, except stations Topoľčany, Čab – Sila, Nové Sady, Veľké
Ripňany, Koniarovce and Oslany. Stations Nitra, Leopoldov, Hlohovec,
Nové Mesto nad Váhom are equipped with front platform. Loading
gauge to identify excess loading rates is in Nitra, Lužianky, Veľké
Bielice Veľké Kostoľany and in Stará Turá. The centre is also equipped
with wagon weighbridge, and that in Nitra, Lužianky, Topoľčany, Veľké
Bielice and Chrenovec.
Customers
The most important customers in the centre include the following:
- Hornonitrianske bane, with their headquarters in Prievidza and
Handlová. This is where coal, transported by block trains from the
Czech Republic, is supplied to. The coal is further processed in the
plant and then exported by block trains to Nižný Hrabovec, Zemianske
Kostoľany as well as to smaller customers.
- Novácke chemické závody, with their headquarters in Nováky. ZSSK
CARGO transports more than 5 thousand wagons from the plant and
over 10 thousand wagons to the plant annually. In particular, the plant
is supplied with salt from Russia, coke from Poland and lime from
Slavec – Jaskyňa. Acids, lye, carbide mixtures, which are dangerous
goods under the regulations of RID, are mainly exported from here.
- Military material from Russia is unloaded on the siding of the Military
Division Nováky.
- Slovenské elektrárne, a. s., Zemianske Kostoľany is the second
largest thermal power plant in Slovakia, owned by ENO - Enel Nováky.
In particular, lime transported by block trains from Lietavská Lúčka
and coal transported by block trains from the Czech Republic,
Kúty and Malé Straciny are unloaded in this location. Also, coal is
transported by block trains to Nižný Hrabovec from Hornonitrianske
bane, with headquarters in Zemianske Kostoľany.
- Plastika Nitra with headquarters in Ivanka pri Nitre exports plastic
products, especially to the station Košice.
- ECO-QELET loads scrap metal in Nitra, on average, 5 wagons per day,
determined also for export.
- In the unoccupied tariff point Rišňovce, loading on siding of Slovnaft,
a. s., terminal Kľačany resumed. From here, the block trains transport
diesel oil to Veľké Kapušany, on average 3 block trains per week.
Other important customers are: Bekaert, a.s., Hlohovec, Enviro, a. s.,
and Meroco, a. s., operating the siding in Leopoldov, or Kameňolomy
Čachtice. We must not forget the smaller customers, loading the scrap
metal and wood in the stations every day.
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