Development of the corn market in whole requires a system-wide scheduled approach to modernization of supporting infrastructure. An integral part of this process are high technologies of freight rail traffic, loading and unloading, advanced logistic schemes, development of the corn infrastructure and new port capacity.
RUSAGROTRANS’s development strategy approved by the Board of Directors of RZhD OJSC involves investment to the development of infrastructure units and renewal of grain carrier fleet. The company’s investment programme provides RUSAGROTRANS’s participation in projects for enhancing port capacity in corn transshipment and investment to modernization of functional elevators and construction of new ones and renewal of carriage fleet.
One of the measures taken by RUSAGROTRANS CJSC to raise grain transportation system efficiency is traffic scheduling that allows to service the increasing cargo traffic via fewer units of carrying equipment, cut costs and maintain prices for railway service at a scheduled state level.
Development strategy for 2012-2013:
• Assert leadership at the market of specialized transport services in the segment of agricultural goods transportation.
• Increase directions of agricultural goods transportation and take leading positions at new grain transportation markets including the Far East and Asia-Pacific region.
• Rout a considerable volume of export traffic and consolidate efforts of market players and state for developing favorable conditions to arrange route trains and taking corresponding decisions stimulative for route shipments.
• Function as a major agricultural goods transportation operator possessing its own grain carrier fleet.
• Increase a carriage fleet controlled by the company and provide its regular modernization.
• Efficiently manage transportation and perfect an operational process.
• Render a full package of logistic services by using options for business growth and cost cutting.
• Perform diversification of business processes and take stable positions at the markets of non-grain goods transportation including alumina, mineral fertilizers and cement in hopper wagons.