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Container Trains

Express Container Train (ECTs) is the most efficient, cost-effective type of freight carriage by rail compared to transportation in covered and open top wagons. The assembly of express container trains allows us to achieve the minimum cost of delivery and to minimize the transit time for our customers.

Advantages of railway transportation in containers compared to open-top wagons:
Reducing the cost of transporting a tonne of cargo
Safer transportation
Costs minimization of in the subsequent handling of goods in ports (risks of delays, damage, etc.)
We perform assembly and dispatch of regular container trains in cooperation with the leading owners of rolling stock and container platforms: Freight One, TransContainer, LogOper and other rail operators.

Every month we assemble and dispatch 7 to 9 container trains laden with the goods of our customers.

Train departures and groupage shipments are implemented between the main destinations: Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Novorossiysk, Nakhodka, Irkutsk, Moscow, Lipetsk, and other cities.
Yekaterinburg–St. Petersburg
Express Service
We inaugurated in conjunction with Freight One the URAIL express container train in the summer of 2021. The new express service was launched for the delivery of goods from the Ural based metals enterprises to Container Terminal Saint Petersburg (CTSP).

LAUNCH DATE July 2021
ROUTE Yekaterinburg (UTRO terminal) – St. Petersburg (Avtovo) CTS
CAPACITY 62 х 20‘ DC
CONTAINERS Ocean lines, own / leased by Universal Forwarder
FLEET OF PLATFORMS Freight One and other owners
TRANSIT TIME 3-4 days
DEPARTURES 3 times / month
Yekaterinburg–Novorossiysk
Express Service
Since 2019 we have been implementing a project together with our partner of express container trains from Yekaterinburg to Russia’s largest southern Port of Novorossiysk.

LAUNCH DATE 2019
ROUTE Yekaterinburg–Novorossiysk (NCSP)
CAPACITY 62 х 20‘ DC
FLEET OF CONTAINERS Ocean lines, TransContainer and others
RAILWAY OPERATOR TransContainer
TRANSIT TIME 3-4 days
DEPARTURES 2 times / month
Yekaterinburg–Tuapse
Express Service
In 2020, we launched the express container train service for transportation of more than 600 TEUs of electrical steel from Yekaterinburg to the Port of Tuapse. We again used the proven logistics scheme in 2022, minimizing the delivery time for our clients (compared to the delivery to NCSP) and costs (compared to shipments in open-top wagons).

LAUNCH DATE 2020
ROUTE Yekaterinburg–Tuapse (TCSP)
CAPACITY 40 х 20‘ DC
FLEET OF CONTAINERS TransContainer and others
RAILWAY OPERATOR TransContainer
TRANSIT TIME 3-4 days
DEPARTURES Upon reaching the required wagon loads