Magazines — RZD-Partner International — 1 (13) February 2008
1 (13) February 2008
OAO RZD: Export Services to India: Lately, OAO RZD has actively been promoting its developments in the international transport market and shown much interest in participation with foreign infrastructure projects.Russian Ports Are Losing Metallurgical Cargoes: Russian portmen will have to think over how they can keep ferrous metallurgy production from being re-directed to competitors and onland border crossings; and rolling stock operators will have to decide on how to use universal and special parks more efficiently.
There Are No Rules, But The Game Is Going On: In OAO RZD a new department has been created – the Department of Freight Transportation Marketing and Tariff Policy. It is headed by a famous specialist in transport circles, Evgeny Mikhailov, who used to be Deputy Director of the Tariff State Regulation and Infrastructure Reforms Department in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In his exclusive interview with The RZD-Partner International magazine, Mr Mikhailov talked about the targets of the new department and about his vision for tariff reform.
Warehousing Logistics: Supply Falls Behind Demand
PRODUCTION AND SERVICES / logistics
Development of retail networks and large enterprises in Russia caused a boom in demand for logistics complexes. At the end of 2007, the area of industrial estate property in the CIS (mainly in Russia) amounted to 5.2 million square metres, meanwhile the potential market capacity is 50 million square metres. Experts forecast that, even if all the announced projects for network warehousing terminals are carried out, the demand will only be partly fulfilled by 2010-2012. And now, although this business is not profitable for them, cargo owners prefer to create their own warehousing assets.