In a difficult situation with harvesting in the new season, one of the important tasks is effective preservation and sale of grain to end customers.
The cooperation of all market participants is based on a complex logistics process. Unfortunately, in recent years there has been a slowdown in the process of movement on the network of JSC NC KTZ and other railway administrations of neighboring countries. At a time when global trade trends tend to reduce travel time, even the standards of the last century are not fulfilled in our country.
Therefore, the average speed in 2022 in export directions was 148 km/h, and in 2023 only 129 km/ h with a standard of 200 km / h. At the same time, in the 4th quarter of 2022 and the 1st quarter of 2023, there was mass routing of export traffic, which allowed speeding up the movement of wagons.
Domestic transportation was at a speed of 155 km/h in 2022, and 153 km/h in 2023 at a standard of 330 km/h.
A reduction in loading in September will lead to delayed demand and accumulation of grain residues that need to be transported in October. Given that the Carrier does not use the available capabilities at full capacity, there are risks of incomplete coordination of shippers' plans. Possible fragmentation of plans in the context of customers will lead to the impossibility of forming route shipments. A large number of non-routed flows will slow down the entire process of movement on the network for all grain forwarders, so we can assume an increase in the turnover of wagons.
An additional increase in the turnover of wagons leads to losses for wagon operators, since the number of days paid by the Customer is calculated based on the standard turnover of 330 and 200 km/h.
Therefore, there is a question of either a fair approach to payment upon overspending of the "estimated working time" of the carriage movement, or an increase in tariffs
