Globaltrans throughput up by 11% to 32.6 bln tonkm in first half 2008
Globaltrans Group’s throughput amounted 32.6 bln tonkm in the first half of 2008, which is an 11% increase comparing with the same period of 2007, the company informs.
The growth was reached due to implementation of new complicated routes, and also rather stable volume of cargos transported in the first half of 2008. Optimization of the routs network led to reduction of empty running coefficient from 24% in the first half of 2007 to 19% in the first half of 2008.
In January-July of 2008 the company received 740 new wagons. The company paid for 602 more open wagons that were to be delivered by the end of the year. In the first 6 months of 2008 the group managed 20,047 wagons that by 2% exceeds the figures of the first half of 2007.
Globaltrans is the largest private company in Russia carrying out railway cargo transfers and the second-large operator in the Russian market of railway cargo transportation considering the quantity of rolling stock units. The group renders transport and logistics services, and also a number of additional services for large Russian industrial enterprises and corporate clients in Russia. The company transfers cargoes for customers in Russia and the Ukraine.
The growth was reached due to implementation of new complicated routes, and also rather stable volume of cargos transported in the first half of 2008. Optimization of the routs network led to reduction of empty running coefficient from 24% in the first half of 2007 to 19% in the first half of 2008.
In January-July of 2008 the company received 740 new wagons. The company paid for 602 more open wagons that were to be delivered by the end of the year. In the first 6 months of 2008 the group managed 20,047 wagons that by 2% exceeds the figures of the first half of 2007.
Globaltrans is the largest private company in Russia carrying out railway cargo transfers and the second-large operator in the Russian market of railway cargo transportation considering the quantity of rolling stock units. The group renders transport and logistics services, and also a number of additional services for large Russian industrial enterprises and corporate clients in Russia. The company transfers cargoes for customers in Russia and the Ukraine.