OREANDA-NEWS. September 6, 2011. Freight One has hauled more than 5,500 metric tons of track gravel for the laying of the seamless so-called "velvet" track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

The deliveries were made between June and August 2011. The project involves removing the old wooden-sleeper jointed track with 25 meter sections and laying reinforced concrete sections that are up to 800 meters long.

The company is supplying its own rolling stock to the Severobaikalsk-Taksimo segment of the East-Siberian Railway, where the reconstruction of the BAM track infrastructure started this year. Freight One is hauling large-sized gravel from the Ulan Makitsky section of the Angasolsky stone-crushing mill in the Republic of Buryatia.

Freight One has set a favorable rate for gravel transport in the Russian Railways network. The rate that the company charges Russian customers for gravel transport is on average 3% lower than the total cost of using state-owned wagons for the same purpose.