Magazines — RZD-Partner International — 4 (4) December-February 2005/2006
4 (4) December-February 2005/2006
BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA: The Mission of the state-run railway company Russian Railways (OAO RZD) is aimed at satisfying the transportation market, increasing efficiency and services quality and deep integration into Eurasian transport system. The international aspect of the latter target is becoming more and more significant day by day.CONTINENTAL BRIDGE: Russia reached its maximum volume of container transportation in the 1980ies. Then it amounted to 31 mln tons. Up to now there have been no results shown that could compare to or exceed this figure. This year some 19.5 mln tons are planned to be made. Surely, it won't break the record mentioned, but obviously the sector is getting closer and closer to it...
TRANSPORT ENGINEERING: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: After the Soviet Union disintegration the Russian engineering industry had suffered a long stagnation, largely conditioned by the break-up of the economic interrelations system that used to exist between individual enterprises during the planned economy era. At the same time, the geography of the engineering industry that had been formed under the communist rule underwent no notable changes, which indicated the preserved potential of the industry that can become the sound basis for further progress.
"Black gold" flowing away into pipe
SPECIAL PROJECT: OIL AND GAS TRANSPORTATION
Oil and oil products belong to high-tariff cargoes and are therefore a priority for the Russian transport industry enterprises. The gains from this cargo transportation in the recent few years allowed to stabilize the economy of the Russian railways, giving new impetus to the operation of the country's inner water transport enterprises that had remained unchanged from the Soviet era. But now the situation with bulked cargoes transportation has changed dramatically.