Freight volume hauled by Independent Transportation Company Ltd. (NTC) in 2011 totaled 72.4 million tons, a 32-percent gain year-on-year, the company said Thursday.
The volume increase was driven by a 64-percent surge in coal and cokes shipments, to 20 7 million tons. In 2011, the operator moved 19.8 million tons of ore, a 36% spike year-on-year, 4.1 million tons of dolomite and limestone (+36), and 2.9 million tons of scrap metal (+26%).
The bulk of freight (74% or 53.4 mln tons) handled by the Company during the reporting period was the cargo delivered to NTK’s major customer JSC NLMK, which rose 13% from a year before. Cargo deliveries for foreign customers soared as much as 2.6 times to 18.9 million tons.
In 2011, cargo transportation by rolling stock operated by NTK totaled 61.1% (+84%) versus 31.1 million in 2010.
Moscow-based Independent Transportation Company (NTK), established in 2001, is now a leading transportation and logistics services provider in Russia. Since June 2011, NTK has been a subsidiary of UCL Rail B.V., a rail division of Universal Cargo Logistics Holding (UCLH). The Group integrates several major rail operators with branches network across Russia, some stevedoring companies in Russia’s northern and southern regions, as well as Volga, North-Western and Western shipping companies, and a number of other shipping assets.
NTK owns and operates a fleet of 27,000 freight cars, 26,000 of them – gondola cars. The Company’s branches are based in Saint-Petersburg, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and a town of Redwa in Sverdlovsk Region. NTK holds a 75% (-2) stake in JSC Freight One and established Lipetsk region-based Gryazi Railcar Repair, a joint venture JSC RZD.