United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Railway Alliance and Osipovichsky plant of mechanical engineering (OPME), Belarus, signed a contract supply of 200 units of 80-foot container railcars until the end of April. The total value of the contract is USD 10 million (RUB 650) without VAT and will be funded from the company’s own funds.
The acquisition is a result of company’s growth traffic forecasts that will need 1000 rail cars to answer market demand. “To ensure the planned traffic volumes for the next year, we need about a thousand more railcars. In order to build up the fleet, we intend to use all the possible options like renting, financial leasing as well as purchase. At the end of 2019, we plan to increase the number of cars under management to 5 thousand units. 85-90% of the fleet will consist of long-base 80-foot railcars,”Alexey Grom, the President of UTLC ERA, said.
The agreement on the purchasing of new container railcars from Osipovichsky plant was concluded in accordance with the UTLC ERA strategy, which allows to form its own fleet of railcars to provide the transit traffic growth, to optimize the costs and reduce its dependence on substantial rates growth of rented wagons.
UTLC ERA is considering the possibility of further railcar fleet increasing under its management. At the end of December 2018, the number of railcars was more than 4,000 units. This is the second largest fleet of container railcars in operation throughout the entire 1520 mm gauge railway network.
The 13-9570 type car manufactured at Osipovichsky plant is designed for large-capacity containers transport. UTLC ERA says that when choosing a supplier, it considers several Russian and foreign manufacturers. The price conditions and delivery terms proposed by OPME were admitted being optimal.
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