Advantageous Tariff
12.01.2009 (18:04)
“Freight One” JSC announced unified tariffs. Earlier largest Russian private transportation company concluded a contract on transportation and set the price according to several conditions including points of departure and destination and light running.
Fixed tariffs were approved for transportation in wagons for cement. Freight One will prepare open rate for covered wagons and cistern wagons. “Our tariffs should be acceptable for all participants of transportation. Clients can compare prices for our services with prices of other companies. Freight One is the first company which took this step,” General Director of Freight One OJSC Salman Babaev said.
The tariffs will provide producers and sellers of cement with transportation cost which depends on route instead of distance. They include infrastructure and wagon constituent and light running.
We should remind that Freight One reduced cement transportation cost by 30% and transport constituent decreased from 14% to 11%.
S Babaev notes that Freight One already cooperates with the largest cement producers (Novoroscement, Mordovcement, Novostroitsk Cement Plant) under these conditions.
Freight One owns 55% wagons for cement transportation of Russian railway network. Therefore the tariffs for this cargo were changed first of all. According to Freight One, the company’s profits will not reduce, because the transportation volume will increase. However the volume decreased by 30% in October-November. The distance of cement transportation reduced to 600-800 km.
Freight One plans to build special terminals, this step will allow to lower price of cement transportation. Two terminals situated near Moscow will be put into operation in 2009. These terminals will allow to produce concrete. These projects will be carried out in Tula, Orel and Kursk. Large terminal for building materials will be put into operation in Sochi.
Freight One plans to collect information to implement unified tariffs for all types of rolling stock in 2009.
S. Babaev hopes that other companies will follow the example of Freight One and railway transportation market will become more attractive for investors. Unified tariffs will allow to ease negotiations and transportation documents processing.
The tariffs will allow to use rolling stock of Freight One in any place of the country. New standard forms of freight contract were delivered to all freight offices.
Freight One places stake on cost saving and growth of transportation volume, the company decided not to increase its share in tariff. “Transport constituent in price shouldn’t exceeded current level,” S. Babaev noted.
Mikhail Kuzminov
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