RZD announced that the average speed of freight delivery on its network grew by 16.6% in the first seven months of this year, reaching 345 kilometres per day.
A positive trend was recorded on all railway branches and on all categories of shipments. The maximum speed achieved by block train shipments was 521 km per day, 17.6% more than last year.
The highest speed for freight deliveries was achieved on consignments on Far East Railways (437 km per day), East Siberian Railways (420 km per day), West Siberian Railways (416 km per day), and Krasnoyarsk Railways (408 km per day).
The increase in average delivery speeds was achieved by implementing organisational and technical measures developed by RZD in 2014-2015. Thus, by increasing the average speed to 46.5 kph, the average time the consignment spends “in motion” was reduced from 43.3 to 37 hours. In addition, the company halved the duration of the initial-end operations at the loading and unloading stations. RZD also reduced wagon downtime at the marshalling yards.
A significant role in increasing average delivery speeds was organising freight trains by timetable. To that end, as of 1 August 2015 the 2014/2015 timetable provided for 1,293 train routes, 318 more than last year.
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