OREANDA-NEWS. September 16, 2010. Freight One hauled 38,500 metric tons of coking coal from the Kaa-Khem and Elegest mines in the Republic of Tuva in August 2010, an increase of 130% over July.

In August, the company test-hauled 5,000 metric tons of coking coal to Ural Steel Works, owned by the holding company Metalloinvest. It thus became possible to haul coking coal mined in the republic, which does not have access to the nationwide railway network, to the Urals region. Deliveries of Tuva coals in Freight One cars had been previously carried out mainly to the Belovskaya Central Processing Plant in Kemerovo Oblast.

Freight One hauled a total of 85,800 metric tons of coking coal from Tuva from January to August 2010. It is noteworthy that the increase in haulage occurred during the summer, when the demand for coking coal stabilizes. It is expected that Freight One will maintain the current high rate of coal haulage from Tuva in September.

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In order to haul coal from Tuva, which has no rail links, the company organized a mixed haulage scheme under which coal is delivered from the republic’s mines to Minusinsk Station on the Krasnoyarsk Railway in dump trucks along the region’s only national highway-the M—54 Yenisey. Coking coal is already being loaded into Freight One gondola cars at the station. The company has also created an effective logistics model in which empty Freight One cars coming from the east are loaded with Tuva coking coal. Such cars, after unloading at the destination stations, are used for the next loading on the spot.