The Global Container Service Group (GCS) has recently taken delivery of the first batch of what will be a total of 224 rail flat-cars, each 80ft long, which have been built by Transmash in Engels, a city in the Saratov region of Russia. Delivery of the first 32 flat-cars should be completed during April 2012.
The new flat-cars will be deployed in block trains operated by Ruscon, a member of the GCS Group. As a multimodal specialist, Ruscon already operates several regular intermodal services from the port of Novorossiysk to principal destinations in the European part of Russia, including Moscow.
In addition to expanding its owned wagon fleet, GCS plans to increase the number of long-term leased flat-cars operated by Ruscon to over 450 units.
This new capacity will enable Ruscon to expand its block train operations. Its most recent new service, launched last December, serves the port of Novorossiysk and operates to the Tikhonovo intermodal terminal in Elabuga, Tatarstan. Two trains per week each offer delivery of 56 to 64 x 40ft containers to Elabuga with a fixed transit time from Novorossiysk to Tikhonovo of four days.
The main commodity presently carried by Ruscon trains on this route consists of shipments of CKD parts for car-assembly factories in Elabuga. Amongst the international names with manufacturing joint venture facilities in Elabuga’s special economic zone (SEZ Alabuga) are Ford, Isuzu, Voith Turbo, Saint-Gobain, Rockwool, Air Liquide and P-D Fibreglass, part of the Preiss-Daimler Group.
More trucks too
Ruscon is also expanding its trucking fleet and has recently commissioned 20 new MAN container trucks. This brings its owned truck fleet to over 100 units.
The new trucks will be dedicated to serving the company's key contract accounts in St Petersburg and Novorossiysk.
The new flat-cars will be deployed in block trains operated by Ruscon, a member of the GCS Group. As a multimodal specialist, Ruscon already operates several regular intermodal services from the port of Novorossiysk to principal destinations in the European part of Russia, including Moscow.
In addition to expanding its owned wagon fleet, GCS plans to increase the number of long-term leased flat-cars operated by Ruscon to over 450 units.
This new capacity will enable Ruscon to expand its block train operations. Its most recent new service, launched last December, serves the port of Novorossiysk and operates to the Tikhonovo intermodal terminal in Elabuga, Tatarstan. Two trains per week each offer delivery of 56 to 64 x 40ft containers to Elabuga with a fixed transit time from Novorossiysk to Tikhonovo of four days.
The main commodity presently carried by Ruscon trains on this route consists of shipments of CKD parts for car-assembly factories in Elabuga. Amongst the international names with manufacturing joint venture facilities in Elabuga’s special economic zone (SEZ Alabuga) are Ford, Isuzu, Voith Turbo, Saint-Gobain, Rockwool, Air Liquide and P-D Fibreglass, part of the Preiss-Daimler Group.
More trucks too
Ruscon is also expanding its trucking fleet and has recently commissioned 20 new MAN container trucks. This brings its owned truck fleet to over 100 units.
The new trucks will be dedicated to serving the company's key contract accounts in St Petersburg and Novorossiysk.