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Navigator FORWARDING Company together with Freight Forwarding Company Navigator LOGISTIC start the new regular rail service for the dispatch of the containers as a part of the container block-trains from the First Container Terminal territory (Big port Saint-Petersburg) to “Freight Village Vorsino” terminal (Vorsino station of the Moscow railway) and in the opposite direction.

From the port of Saint-Petersburg in Moscow direction the First Container Express will start on April, 27 2017, and in the opposite direction the train will be dispatched on May, 2 2017. Transit time would be 38 hours. Further departures from Saint Petersburg will be carried out weekly on Thursdays, from Moscow – on Tuesdays.

Service First Container Express intended for imported customs cleared freight or freight that follow in the customs transit mode and for export and domestic freight.

For the detailed information about terms and benefits of the service First Container Express, you can get on the website www.fct-express.ru.

First Container Express is the second regular railway block-train service organized by companies Navigator FORWARDING and FFC Navigator LOGISTIC with terminals of the Global Ports group. In October 2013, companies launched regular block-train “Ust-Luga Express”, plying by port of Ust-Luga – Moscow – the port of Ust-Luga route with a frequency 2 train a week.

First Container Terminal (FCT is a part of the Global Ports group) is the largest container terminal in Russia. It works on the territory of the Big port of Saint-Petersburg since 1998. FCT is one of the first specialized container terminal in Russia.

“Freight Village Vorsino” terminal (Vorsino station) is a multimodal terminal, which represents a freight village of the federal format located on the border of the New Moscow and Kaluga region, with direct access to road, rail and air cargo transport thanks to the state of the art transshipment infrastructure. FV Vorsino is a part of Industrial Park Vorsino.

According to the figures, published on the company’s website, the network owned by Russian Railways loaded 305,1 mln t. of freight in January – March 2017 which is 3,8% more than in the same period last year.

In Jan-Mar’17, Russian Railways loaded the following freight:
91,1 mln t of coal (+9,3%, y-o-y);
2,8 mln t of coke (+3,9%);
61,2 mln t of crude and oil products (-0,2%);
26,6 mln t of iron and manganese ores (-0,2%);
17,8 mln t of ferrous metal (+0,4%);
2,8 mln t of ferrous metal scrap (+21,6%);
14,3 mln t of chemical and mineral fertilisers  (+5,1%);
4,6 mln t of cement (-2,3%);
10,8 mln t of timber (+3,9%);
5 mln t of grain (+0,6%);
27,9 mln t of construction materials (-3,2%);
5 mln t of  non-ferrous ores and sulphur feedstock (-1,3%);
6,7 mln t of chemicals and soda (+3,5%);
7,8 mln t of industrial raw materials and molding materials (+13,2%).

In Jan–Mar’17, freight turnover increased compared to the same period 2016 by 7,3% and amounted to 607,6 bn tariff ton-km. Freight turnover taking into account empty wagon runs amounted 779,4 bn ton-km.

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In January – February 2017, Russian seaports handled 114.8 mln t of cargo (+8.2%, year-on-year), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.

Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 49.2 mln t (+7.6%) including:
20.9 mln t of coal (+15.2%),
6.9 mln t of containerized cargo (+9%),
4.5 mln t of ferrous metal (+2.5%),
4.5 mln t of grain (+1.2%),
2.7 mln t of chemical fertilizers (+7.2%),
0.5 mln t refer cargo (+13.2%).
Transshipment of liquid bulk cargoes increased by 8.7% to 65.6 mln t including
38.4 mln t of crude oil (+8%),
24 mln t of oil products (+8.3%),
2.5 mln t of liquefied gas (+27.1%).

Transshipment of export cargoes totaled 90.5 mln t (+5.3%), import cargoes – 5.2 mln t (+15.7%), transit cargoes – 8.5 mln t (+4.5%), coastal freight cargoes – 10.6 mln t (+41.6%).

Total container throughput of Russian seaports in January-February of 2017 increased by 8.6% year-on-year to 668.3 thou TEU, including laden export 174.3 thou TEU (+12.8%), empty export – 105.1 thou TEU (+1.9%), import — 292.1 thou TEU (+10.1%), transit — 6.1 thou TEU (-14.8%), coasting — 90.7 thou TEU (+6.5 %).

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On March 16, 2017, in the territory of the multimodal transport and logistics center Freight Village Vorsino was signed an agreement, on cooperation within the framework of the pilot project implementation to support non-oil export-oriented companies when sending their cargos from transport and logistics center Freight Village Vorsino, between Freight Village RU and Russian Export Center.  It is reported on website of Freight Village Ru.

The signatures under the relevant documents were: General Director of Freight Village Kaluga North LLC Nikolay Kruchinin and General Director of Russian Export Center JSC Petr Fradkov.

The pilot project involves the formation of the block train to China in cooperation with Chinese company Sinotrans, “RZD”, “RZD Logistics” and “Transcontainer”. The first train will depart from Vorsino station (Kaluga region) to China through the Trans-Baikal on April 5, 2017. Delivery time from Vorsino station to Guangdong in the south of Chine will be 10-12 days. Deliver to the station Shilun (Guangdong Province) as well as to the port of Dalian, from where on the feeder ships will be forwarded to other ports products will.

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According to the figures, published on the company’s website, the network owned by Russian Railways loaded 196,1 mln t. of freight in January – February 2017 which is 3,8% more than in the same period last year.

In Jan-Feb 2017, Russian Railways loaded the following freight:
60,1 mln t of coal (+9,1%, y-o-y);
1,8 mln t of coke (+6,3%);
40,5 mln t of crude and oil products (-0,3%);
17 mln t of iron and manganese ores (-1,8%);
11,5 mln t of ferrous metal (+1,8%);
1,7 mln t of ferrous metal scrap (+41,4%);
9,4 mln t of chemical and mineral fertilisers  (+4,5%);
2,5 mln t of cement (-7,2%);
6,7 mln t of timber (+6,8%);
3,2 mln t of grain (+1,7%);
16,6 mln t of construction materials (-1,8%);
3,2 mln t of  non-ferrous ores and Sulphur feedstock (-4,5%);
4,5 mln t of chemicals and soda (+5%);
4,6 mln t of industrial raw materials and molding materials (+6%).

In January – February 2017, freight turnover increased compared to the same period 2016 by 6,7% and amounted to 393,6 bn tariff ton-km. Freight turnover taking into account empty wagon runs amounted 505 bn ton-km.

In February 2017, Russian Railways network loaded 96 mln t of freight (+0,9% y-o-y)/ Freight turnover in February 2017, amounted 189,1 bn tariff ton-km, freight turnover taking into account empty wagon runs amounted 242,8 bn ton-km.

In Jan-Feb 2017, the infrastructure owned by Russian Railays carried 154,2 mln passengers (+9,3% y-o-y), which of suburban passengers – 140,5 mln (+10,3%), long-distance passengers – 13,7 mln (+0,5%). For February Rassian Railway’s network carried76,7 mln passengers (+6,4%), which of suburban – 70,6 mln passengers (+6,6%), long-distance – 6,1 mln (+3,4%).

Passenger turnover in first two month of the 2017 amounted 15,1 bln passenger-km (-2% y-o-y), which of for February – 6,6 bln passenger-km (-2,5%  to Feb’16).

«Navigator FORWARDING» LLC company took part in a business seminar « What awaits the market of container transportation in 2017? New conditions: guide for action», organized by the RZD-Partner magazine.

In the course of event, the participant discussed a number of topical issues, related to container transportation sphere. In the business seminar took part a representatives of the car building industry, container terminals, railways of other countries, owners of rolling stock, railway service operators.

According to the result of the business seminar, the center for corporate transport services “RZD” (CCTS) will form a working group under the direction of Salman Babayev, vice president of JSC Russian Railways, whose task will be solving problematic issues, connected with the formation of new container block-trains. The group will include representatives of the largest container operators.

Main issues of the seminar:

•  Development of a segment of container trains and formation of new routes
• Changes in tariff policy
• Ensuring equal access to the railway infrastructure in the formation of container shipments
• New opportunities in the production of containers, fitting platforms and special equipment for handling operations

Speakers of the seminar was:

Head of Transport Service Department “RZD” (CCTS) Alexander Zhukov; first vice president board member of JSC UTLC Yerzhan Zhakishev; vice-manager for sales and commerce of PJSC “TransContainer” Alexander Romanov; deputy head of commercial affairs of Central management of the terminal-warehouse complex – branch JSC Russian Railways Andrey Zybkin.

During the discussion the issues, the speakers of the seminar shared the nearest plans, aimed at the advancement of container transportation sphere.

First of April 2017 JSC Russian Railways together with FESCO Integrated Transport, Ltd launched a pilot project on transporting fish in refcontainers from Vladivostok to Moscow, aimed at providing the European part of Russia with fresh fish products.

PJSC “TransContainer” in the near future plans to launch a mobile app to sell their services.

JSC UTLC does not exclude the possibility of joining the railway administration of China to UTLC. “There is an opportunity to consider, in the near future or in the medium term, the inclusion of the China Railway Administration or its subsidiary enterprise China Railway Container Transport. There will be 3+1”, said first vice president board member of JSC UTLC Yerzhan Zhakishev.

The business seminar was held in Moscow on 21 th of February, 2017.

In January 2017, Russian seaports handled 59.6 mln t of cargo (+12.7%, year-on-year), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.

Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 25 mln t (+14.9%) including:
10.2 mln t of coal (+19.7%),
3.5 mln t of containerized cargo (+16.4%),
2.3 mln t of ferrous metal (+8.6%),
2.5 mln t of grain (+33.6%),
1.4 mln t of chemical fertilizers (+6.8%),
0.4 mln t of timber (+1.1%),
0.3 mln t of ro-ro cargoes (up 1.8 times),
0.3 mln t of scrap-metal (+23.1%),
1.6 mln t of cargo carried by ferries (-0.7%),
0.4 mln t of ore (-40.6%),
0.2 mln of unitized cargoes (-26.8%).

Transshipment of liquid bulk cargoes increased by 11.2% to 34.7 mln t including
19.9 mln t of crude oil (+9.1%),
13.1 mln t of oil products (+14%),
1.3 mln t of liquefied gas (+7.5%).

Transshipment of export cargoes totaled 47.4 mln t (+10.2%), import – 2.4 mln t (+10.6%), transit – 4.3 mln t (+3.2%), coastal trade cargoes – 5.5 mln t (up 1.6 times).

Total container turnover of Russian seaports in January of 2017 increased by 12.9% year-on-year to 335.38 thou TEU, including total export 141.27 thou TEU (+10.3%), import — 145,61 thou TEU (+18,2%), transit — 3.39 thou TEU (+2.3%), coasting trade cargoes — 45.12 thou TEU (+6 %).

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In January 2017, Russian Railways loaded 100.1 mln t of cargo (+6.7%, year-on-year), the company’s press center says.

In the reported period, Russian Railways loaded:
31,4 mln t of coal (+9,9%, y-o-y);
0,939 mln t of coke (+15,7%);
21,2 mln t of crude and oil products (+1,9%);
8,8 mln t of iron and manganese ore (-1,4%);
5,9 mln t of ferrous metal (+7,3%);
0,802 mln t of ferrous metal scrap (+75,9%);
4,9 mln t of chemical and mineral fertilizers  (+5%);
1,1 mln t of cement (+1,6%);
3,2 mln t of timber (+10,2%);
1,6 mln t of grain (+18,8%);
7,7 mln t of construction materials (+9,.1%);
1,6 mln t of  non-ferrous ore and raw sulphur (-3,4%);
2,3 mln t of chemicals and soda (+8,8%);
2,2 mln t of industrial raw materials and molding materials (+5,1%).
In the reported period, the company’s cargo turnover totaled 203,2 bln tarrif t-km (+11,1%).

Cargo turnover including empty wagon run – 261,8 bln tarrif t-km (+ 10,7%).

In 2016, Russian seaports handled 721.9 mln t of cargo (+6.7%, year-on-year), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports.

Transshipment of liquid bulk cargo increased by 5.9% to 386.1 mln t including
228 mln t of crude oil (+12.8%),
140.7 mln t of oil products (-3.7%)
13.6 mln t of liquefied gas (+5.5%).

Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 335.8 mln t (+7.5%) including:

136.3 mln t of coal (+10.5%),
42.7 mln t of containerized cargo (+6.5%),
28.2 mln t of ferrous metal (+7.8%),
35.5 mln t of grain (+3.3%),
22.7 mln t of cargo carried by ferries (+3.5%),
8.7 mln t of ore (+ 29.6%),
5.4 mln t of timber (+1.8%),
4.6 mln t of ro-ro cargo (up 1.8 times),
16.2 mln t of chemical fertilizers (+1.1%),
4 mln t of scrap-metal (-5.5%).

Transshipment of export cargo totaled 567.3 mln t (+5.3%), import – 31.7 mln t (-5%), transit – 51 mln t (+5.8%), coastal trade cargo – 71.9 mln t (+27.4%).

The total container cargos in Russian seaports in 2016 increased by 1.4% year-on-year to 3.99 mln TEU, including total export 1.64 mln TEU (-0.6%), import — 1.67 mln TEU (+2,1%), transit — 50 thou TEU (-28.5%), coastal trade cargo — 640 thou TEU (+8.5 %).

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TFC Navigator LOGISTIC and Navigator FORVARING congratulate customers, partners and colleagues with a New Year 2017! And wish you and your businesses prosperity and development in the New Year.

This announcement is about updates to the service rates of block train “Ust-Luga Express” for 2017. To view new tariffs you can go on our web site ul-express.ru in chapter Tariffs or clicking the link http://navilog.ru/mezdunarodnye-perevozki-gruzov/kontejnernyej-poezd-ust-luga-moskva/.

“Ust-Luga Express” Service – is Express Container block train running between the Port of Ust-Luga – Moscow – Port of Ust-Luga with fixed weekly schedule, 2 times a week.

For 2016 Container block train “Ust-Luga Express” has done 153 voyages, transported more than 7500 TEU.

Service was founded in 2013 and during the work proved to be in demand, reliable and inexpensive way to deliver cargos from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

To get more detailed information about service Container block train “Ust-Luga Express” or learn about another services of the company you can contact us

by the phone +7(812) 329-39-50 or visit our web-page navilog.ru or ul-express.ru.