Transportation using universal rolling stock

Assets

The Rail Division operates the following types of target rolling stock: fitting platforms for container transportation and universal box cars.

In 2020, FESCO completed its programme to dispose of non-core assets, selling the grain and box car businesses. The fleet of fitting platforms expanded by 834 units. As at 31 December 2020, the Rail Division operated a total of 8,200 units of rolling stock.

Services

The Rail Division offers freight forwarding services, dispatcher control (24/7 monitoring of railcar movement within the network), locomotive leasing, and railcar storage infrastructure. To deliver excellence in transportation, the Rail Division runs six representative offices in the key cargo base regions: Moscow and the Moscow Region, the Primorye Territory, the Chelyabinsk Region, the Irkutsk Region, and the Komi Republic.

In order to integrate FESCO assets and competencies of other divisions, the Rail Division is expanding its fleet of fitting platforms and ensures the technical quality of the fleet and proper maintenance of railcars, optimises repair costs and times by installing its own spare parts and wheel sets.

In 2020, box cars transported the following cargoes: crushed stone, sawn timber, rubber, cement, sulphate, soil, fertilisers, construction materials, alcohol-free beverages, and flax and sunflower seed.

Source: Company data.

Operations

Amid lockdown measures and lower rates, the volume of railway container transportation grew by 21% YoY in 2020, reaching 471 thousand TEU vs 388 thousand TEU in 2019.

Shipments by box cars went up by 9% to 17,917 units.