CONTAINER transport operator Ruscon has started a
dedicated block train from Ust-Luga, 100 kilometres west of St Petersberg to a
Volkswagen assembly plant at Nizhniy Novgorod, 700 kilometres east of Moscow.
Block trains, carrying 54 FEU of complete knockdown (CKD)
Volkswagen parts, leaves the port on the Russian Baltic four times a week,
taking two and a half days to reach Nizhniy Novgorod.
Ruscon expects to carry 700-800 FEU a month on the
service, a company statement said. It is using its own 80' flat cars, which are
part of the fleet of 224 new rail cars it bought last year to win more
intermodal traffic.
"The volumes are big enough and business is
sufficiently regular to justify a dedicated operation," said director
liner and business development Andrey Naraevskiy.
The containers, which originate from production plants in
Mexico, arrive at Ust-Luga on a new weekly feeder service launched by
Hapag-Lloyd in May.
The company already runs block trains from Ust-Luga to
Nizhniy Novgorod carrying parts for General Motors (Korea) Ltd to a plant
operated by Russian motor manufacturer GAZ.
Source : HKSG, 19.07.13.
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