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The group's rail turnover increased by 4% in the first half of this year and amounted to more than 8.5 million euros. The number of orders increased by 23% compared to the same period in 2017.
The main share of all freight the corporate group transports by rail is industrial goods, with 27% of total volume. Other significant cargo types include metals with 10% of total volume, fashion and beauty items with 6%, and fertilizers and chemical products with 5%. The total weight of goods transported by rail in the first 6 months of 2018 amounted to 430 thousand tons.
The leading routes, in terms of value of goods transported along them, were within Russia with 316 shipments, between China and Russia with 272, within Kazakhstan with 260, between China and Belarus with 188, and between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with 118.
As part of a strategy to strengthen its position on Asian routes, AsstrA continues to roll out express container trains services from/to China, including some using the Trans-Siberian railway (TCM). To date, such transportation accounts for about 60% of all railway shipments organized by the company.
"At AsstrA 2017 was a great year for new Partnerships. We signed a five-year joint venture memorandum with the Russian United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLK) to offer transportation on the China-Europe-China route. We joined the Coordinating Council for Trans-Siberian Transport (CCTT). We signed an agreement with the Russian Ralways’ Center of Corporate Services (CFTO) to process payments for transit routes through Russia. The results of these Partnerships are already noticeable. Because we are strengthening relationships with large owners of railway assets, increasing our range of transportation services, and ensuring that our railway offerings have favorable conditions, we have welcomed more than 200 new customers over the past year. By the end of the year, we plan to increase our volume of rail cargo transportation by more than 15%," says Andrey Sulla, Deputy COO for Rail Freight Transportation at AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG.
