Kaliningrad Railroad (KZD, a Russian Railways’ North-West arm) plans to boost volumes of handled containers at Cherniakhovsk railyard from June twice as much, up to 90 (20-,30-,40-foot) containers a day, after completion in June of building of a new handling facility at the Novo-West Park of Cherniakhovsk station, the Company’s press service said. The Railroad’s terminal capacity allows currently handling over 40-foot containers a day.
In the first quarter KZD handled 72 container trains, transporting spare parts for Kaliningrad's car maker, via the West-East line through Skandava (Poland) border crossing. The total volume of transported cargo with a unified CIM/SMGS bill of lading on the European rail track reached 27.547 tons, 11.646 tons more than the same period last year.
The processing of unified B/L is carried out at Slovakia station where containers are loaded. Then the container trains run without stops for re-registration to the Cherniakhovsk railyard of Kaliningrad Railroad, where containers are offloaded and stored on a terminal facility.
Kaliningrad Railroad is a subsidiary of Russian Railways (RZD OJSC). The KZD’s operational length is 617.7 km. In 2009 KZD transported 12.7 million tons of cargoes.