OREANDA-NEWS. July 23, 2010. Employees of the branch have developed logistics schemes that reduce empty runs on the company’s southern routes.

In particular, the Rostov branch is using 21 circular routes for the transport of inert construction freight. As a result, 1.2 million tons of freight were transported in Freight One gondolas for the construction of Olympic facilities during the first 6 months of 2010, an increase of 3% over the same period of last year. One of the priorities of the Rostov branch is to use Freight One gondolas as much as possible on these routes and reduce the downtime of cars.

"Besides using circular routes, we are trying to devise cost-effective logistics schemes that reduce losses associated with empty runs on the West-Siberian Railway," said Maxim Artemenko, Head of Relations with Coal and Steel Companies. "In July, we organized deliveries of imported coking coal from Temryuk Station to stations of the Moscow and Southern Urals Railways. Gondolas arriving at the port of Temryuk from stations of the West Siberian Railway are unloaded and then reloaded."