"ISC 2015 provides "Stavrolene" service of industrial logistics. Within this service branch has helped to liberate the plant from non-core functions and to optimize the transportation process, the turnover of railcars on the sidings of the enterprise managed to reduce more than 1 day. We also implement a range of measures to reduce the cost of maintenance of the railway plant in Budennovsk, which allowed the ISC to increase its profitability by 44%. This became possible due to efficient management of railway infrastructure with the rental of railway siding, locomotives, buildings and structures, including repair of facilities. The branch took over the operations for feeding/cleaning cars, managing the in-plant transport of shift-daily work planning, approval of operations in relations with Russian Railways, preparation of tanks for loading," said Vadim Zhukov.

The branch Manager also announced plans to expand the range of services multimodal transport and new projects PGK: implementation of the IT platform SAP and the establishment of a joint service centre. Services are designed to improve management processes, improve customer focus and efficiency of use of rolling stock.

According to Vadim Zhukov, to meet the needs of shippers, especially in the implementation of new services will help the interaction of JSC "Russian Railways" rolling stock operators and seaports.

In the forum "YugTrans-2018", held on 29 and 30 March in Noumea, attended by: representatives of subsidiaries of Russian Railways and operators, heads of stevedore companies, port terminals and branch institutes, experts in the fields of logistics and forwarding.

The forum participants discussed prospects for increasing transit potential of transportation in the South of Russia, development of railway approaches to ports and growth of cargo flows in the direction of the black sea.

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The international transport forum "YugTrans" is an interregional platform for discussion of problematic issues of the railway industry and large-scale transport projects, which gathers the heads of relevant organisations of the Russian Federation and CIS, top managers of Russian stevedoring, logistics and operating companies, leading analysts transport.

JSC "First Cargo Company" (PGK) is the largest private rail freight operator in Russia. The company provides a full complex of services on transportation of cargoes. At freight Crimea will receive 134.6 thousand units of rolling stock, including gondola cars, tank cars, platforms and other types of cars. The regional network of the company is represented in 14 cities of Russia and in Kazakhstan and a joint venture in Finland.

PGK forms the rail division of the international transport group Universal Cargo Logistics Holding (UCL Holding). In addition to railway assets, the group includes stevedoring companies in the North-West and South of the country, and large Russian shipping assets.