United Wagon Company (UWC) has established UNICON 1520, a transport company to provide tank-container and container shipments.
The railway operator UNICON 1520 will specialize in the arrangement of transport services and multimodal logistics of bulk, including hazardous cargoes. Tank-containers for chemical, petrochemical freights and liquefied hydrocarbonic gases, as well as container flat cars with increased load capacity, including those manufactured by railway holding RPC UWC, will form the core of the new company’s fleet.
UNICON 1520 will render shipping services both inside and outside Russia, in the CIS countries, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
“We see a high potential of growth in container shipment, including transportation of bulk cargoes by tank-containers. The creation of a specialized operator will only further promote flat cars with increased load capacity,” Dmitry Bovykin, First Deputy CEO for General Management at United Wagon Company, said.
Market experts forecast a stable trend towards more containerisation of cargoes in segments with high write-off rates of tank cars within the next five years. Unlike a freight car, a tank-container is more practical in terms of the range of cargoes that can be shipped. Therefore, tank-containers could be used to carry some 4.5 million tons of petrochemical freight annually, currently shipped otherwise.
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