South Caucasus Railway sums up results of activities for February

ArmInfo. South Caucasus Railway (SCR) CJSC CEO Sergey Valko summed up the results of activities for Feb 2017.    

As the SCR press office has told ArmInfo, Valko noted that last month the company speeded up efforts towards resumption of Kavkaz-Poti ferry service. Jointly with the Georgian Railway, a number of joint decisions were taken regarding the tariffs of cargo transportation to Armenia and from Armenia.       

Valko said that export traffic increased by 9.3% as compared to the targeted indicator.  Local traffic dropped by 3.7% as compared to last year's indicator. Such qualitative indices as the average weight of the cargo train (1476 tons, up 3.5% versus last year's indicator), the daily mileage and the locomotive productivity also grew. The service speed reached 35.7 km/h, up 2% versus a year before, while the operating speed reached 40.9 km/h, up 3.3%. Valko stressed the need to improve such indicators as the working fleet of cargo trains, nonload run, electricity consumption for hauling operations.    

As regards the schedule, he noted that in Feb 2017 as many as 970 trains ran, 954 of which met the schedule.

Valko paid special attention to railway safety issues. He said that in Feb 2017 the railway appraisal rose by 4 points as compared to the previous month. 

The SCR CEO instructed speeding up efforts to increase the cargo transportation by rail, especially with the use of Kavkaz-Poti ferry service, which will allow launching direct cargo transportation from Armenia  to Russia and CIS countries and back.

SCR CJSC is the 100% subsidiary of Russian Railways OJSC and the concessional manager of Armenian Railways under the 13 Feb 2008 agreement, which was signed for 30 years but can be extended for 10 more years.