OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2012. Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has approved a request from the Federal Passenger Company (FPC) request to establish the open Joint Stock Company FPC-Logistics, which will be 100% owned by the FPC. The FPC is a subsidiary of Russian Railways, reported the press-centre of RZD.

FPC-Logistics will render the following services:

cargo, luggage and cargo-luggage door-to-door delivery using all modes of transport;

renting its own coaches when temporally available during the early stages of the company’s operations (up to 2015);

warehousing customers’ goods before delivery.

The state registration of FPC-Logistics is planned for September 2012, with commercial operations due to begin in the first quarter of 2013.

FRC-Logistics’ registered capital will be 1.798 billion roubles, consisting of FPC assets in the form of equipment (452 luggage cars worth 1.7775 billion roubles) and 21 million roubles in cash.

Manufacturers and suppliers of consumer goods, drugs, clothes and perfumes, consumer electronics and other goods are major users of luggage wagons on the less-than-container load (LCL) market.

JSC FPC-Logistics will be rendering top level services at mid-market prices. Consumers will win thanks to the wider range and higher quality of services provided by FPC-Logistics, including a wider route network, higher delivery frequency and more loading/unloading points.

FPC-Logistics plans to operate between the following geographic destinations:

West (Moscow/St.Petersburg) – East (Krasnoyarsk, West-Siberian, East Siberian, Far Eastern Railways) - West (Moscow/St.Petersburg);

West (Moscow/St.Petersburg) – North (Gorky, Northern Railways) – West (Moscow/St.Petersburg).

FPC Logistics will have 6 branches and 51 luggage units, with 31 luggage units owned by FPC-Logistics and 20 luggage units rented from Russian Railways.

In order to position FPC Logistics among customers and potential partners, the company’s range of services will be developed to that level which matches the freight transportation leaders on the LCL market, including the online customer service, goods delivery to customers by lorries, receiving and dispatching cargo without customer presence, door-to-door delivery of goods, goods insurance, documents, mail and express freight delivery.

In addition, the company plans to launch an active marketing strategy which will offer an efficient and flexible tariff policy for customers.