Russian Railways supports introduction of direct control of prices for stevedores’ services, Vice-President of Russian Railways Salman Babayev said in his letter to Aleksandr Redko, deputy head of Russia’s antitrust watchdog, Federal Antimonopoly Service. According to the letter, which is available to IAA PortNews, the share of stevedores’ services in total cost of export cargo transportation is tending to increase due to faster growth of handling fees at seaports as compared with the growth of railway transportation rates.
As an alternative to direct regulation of stevedore tariffs the letter suggests looking into lifting of restrictions on pricing of export cargo transportation by railways, also in the framework of a tariff corridor, and setting of a mechanism to fix an allowed share of transport component in final price of products with a specified structure for distribution of service costs between the participants of the entire transportation chain.
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