General Director of JSC "Federal freight" Viktor Voronovich said: "In April 2020, we announced the reduction of price terms for the provision of covered wagons for transportation of socially important cargoes in the domestic market. These measures are aimed, in particular, to support small and medium-sized businesses in a period of difficult epidemiological situation. The company, with particular attention to resolving such problems and ready to provide the necessary quantity of a rolling stock for loading of food products".
In the reporting period recorded growth of volume of transportations in covered cars of JSC "FGC": vegetables and fruits – in 23 times (up to 1.5 tons), flour – by 3.7 times (up to 1 thousand tons), mineral water – by 3.5 times (up to 4.1 thousand tons), sugar (up 48% to 37 thousand tonnes), sunflower oil – 46% (8 thousand tons), salt – on 45% (to 1.1 thousand tonnes), macaroni products – by 23% (1.3 thousand tons), etc.
In April 2020 the main roads of loading food products are: Southeast – 27.6 thousand tons, North Caucasus – 15.4 thousand tons, the Moscow – 8,3 thousand tons, Western-Siberian – 3.4 thousand tons, Kuibyshev – 3.2 thousand tons, Gorky – 3 thousand tons and more.
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Joint stock company "Federal freight company" (subsidiary of JSC "RZD") is one of the largest cargo rail operators in Russia. JSC "FGC" is among the three leaders of the rating of operators INFOLine RAIL RUSSIA TOP.
The main activity of the Company is providing rolling stock for transportation of goods, and rendering of transport-forwarding services. Total car fleet of JSC "FGC" is 129 thousand units of rolling stock (as of 24.05.2020).
On the Russian Railways has 15 branches and agencies of transport services JSC Federal freight, as well as representative offices in Moscow and Kazakhstan.
Official site of JSC "FGC": www.railfgk.ru.
Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"