Freight express for the special economic zone Next year Gorky and Kuibyshev railways will be connected by freight express. It will follow the Sukhobezvodnoye – Tikhonovo route. This became known at a meeting of the Volga Interregional Coordinating Council of two highways. An express freight train with an agreed time of reception, departure and arrival, which is formed from disparate shipments of various senders and empty wagons.
According to the acting head of the Kuibyshev Territorial Center for Branded Transport Services (TCFTO) Andrey Zimikhin, quartz sand, which is used in glass production, will be transported from Sukhobezvodny to Tikhonovo. These will be group shipments – 44 wagons each with a monthly cargo turnover of 16 thousand tons. The issue of hitching rolling stock with a roundwood is being considered by one of the owners of specialized platforms at the Agryz station. Cargo recipients are residents of the special economic zone "Alabuga".
The launch of the express will shorten the delivery time of goods and accelerate the turnover of wagons. Today, the standard period from Tikhonovo station to Sukhobezvodnoye is six days. The cargo is transported in separate batches, single shipments and at different times. "The freight express will transport the entire volume along this route in three days, because the train will follow without processing at marshalling yards," explained Andrey Zimikhin. Empty wagons will also be sent back from Tikhonov to Sukhobezvodnoye in one train. The Cargo Express service is used by small and medium-sized businesses.
The first express was launched in 2013 from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg. "Then we made a second route to Novosibirsk," Iles Izmailov, head of the sector of interaction with participants of the railway and ferry service of the Oktyabrsky TCFTO, told the "Hooter". – The service is interesting to customers with a small volume of shipments: one or two wagons. And speed is important to them. Now we are planning to open new routes." "Such enterprises do not have large shipments to be presented.
Express allows you to plan the date of departure and delivery time, and consequently, a clearer work of the companies – senders and recipients of cargo, optimize storage capacity, increase production efficiency," Kuibyshev TCFTO is confident. As told in the Central Directorate of Traffic Management, this year freight express trains went to the directions Bekasovo-sortirovochnoye (MZhD) – Khabarovsk-2 (DVZhD), Lublin-Sortirovochnoye (MZhD) – Inskaya (ZZHD). The issue of organizing transportation within the framework of the service in the direction of Krugloye Pole, Naberezhnye Chelny (KBSZHD) – Novotroitsk (YUZD) is also being considered.