Transportation of coal, raw materials for iron and steel and ferrous metals
Since 2017, the Company has been part of a limited pool of operators with coal loading from West Siberian Railway, and has also been interacting with the divisions of Russian Railways at all levels in order to optimise the process of customer’s cargo transportation. We transport all types of hard coal for export and domestic destinations, coking coal, ore and other raw materials to steel mills and export metals from these mills throughout 1520 gauge countries.
The basis of the stock for this transportation is gondolacars of increased load capacity, which favorably differ from standard gondola cars offered by the Russian Railways network*:
Parameter | 12-9548-01 | 12-9853 | 12-132 |
Load capacity, tons | 83.0 | 75.0 | 69.5 |
Cubic capacity, m3 | 108 | 92 | 88 |
Service life, years | 40 | 32 | 22 |
Overhaul life, thous. km/years | 800/8 | 800/8 | 210/3 |
standard gondola cars shall mean 12-132 cars