Former President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin was categorically against granting the operators of rolling stock and even the right to operate the locomotives on the tracks of General use. Now they only provide Russian Railways. Yakunin assured that the liberalization of the locomotive traction will lead to the fact that private carriers will take profitable freight and best direction, and the Railways remain all the rest. Private business asked me to give him access to the management of locomotives. It’s worth it. According to the Institute of research of problems of railway transport, in 2015 revenues of the Railways from locomotives amounted to 1.15 trillion (58% of revenues) in the first half of 2016 – 593 bn (57%).
New management of state-owned companies, headed by its President Oleg Belozerov ready to make concessions to private business. In directed the Ministry to amend the target model of the freight market (“Vedomosti” has read the document) Railways proposes to allocate transport (locomotives) and infrastructure (route and stations) businesses into a separate unit. And after five years to consider the possibility to bring the first to the subsidiary and to attach to it, the operator of rail cars, i.e., the Federal freight company.
While the Railways allow even the sale of a minority stake in the resulting company. But considers that this is necessary to fulfill a number of conditions. In particular, to develop a system of pricing separately for infrastructure and transportation activities in railway transport. It is also necessary to determine the model of the transportation activities of monopoly or market.
the Offer of the Railways – an alternative from the idea of Ministry. The Ministry has proposed to create separate enclaves on networks in which all traffic to give to private companies. The officials then explained that I wanted to see how the owners can organize such activities.
Railways also proposes to return to the experiments only after 2021, And while she intends to rent from the operators of existing locomotives. So, Globaltrans is 75 locomotives, “Neftetransservis” – 54 locomotive, the “Transoil” – 36 locomotives and 3 electric locomotives.
to jump to the liberalization of locomotive traction is not necessary, agrees with Russian Railways General Director of the research Institute of railway transport Pavel Ivankin. Nothing prepared – neither the laws nor the infrastructure, there is no complete model of the project. The postponement of liberalization will close the window of opportunity for major industrial holdings, including corporate and private operators, transfer of intra-corporate logistics at its own locomotive traction. But in the case of illiterate victims of a large scale experiment will be much more, says Ivankin.
in fact, the Railways proposes to abandon the liberalization of locomotive traction, said General Director of “Infoline-Analytics” Mikhail Burmistrov. In fact, in its proposals, the company admits the possibility of implementing even a “pilot project” to create local carriers no earlier than five years and only if “the lack of increase of efficiency of the railway industry”. Meanwhile, the private sector could solve the problem of wear of the locomotive fleet. And with the additional restrictions and conditions imposed by the Railways on the possibility of market liberalization thrust, it can be argued that the market of main-line locomotives for operators will be closed not for 5-7 years, but forever. It is not excluded a variant at which the Railways will put pressure on private operators, so that they passed all their locomotives on lease to Railways, fears Burmistrov.
Representatives of Russian Railways and the Federal Antimonopoly service refused to comment. The representative of the Ministry of economic development said that the comments received and the Railways are being worked out.
economic development not against isolation inside RZD various activities, says close to the Ministry. But officials will not support is not something that privatization of United locomotive-car company, but even the creation of such structures, he says. In addition, the Ministry continues to insist on the need for local experiments with private locomotives.
a member of one of the major companies see in the Association of locomotive and car parks Railways, on the contrary, the risk of strengthening the position of state-owned companies. Because the creation of such “daughter” will lead to the outflow of the cargo base from private owners in a complete unbalance of the operator market, says the source, “Vedomosti”.
Representatives of Globaltrans and “Transoil” they say that the idea of Russian Railways on the rental of private locomotives is worthy of discussion, and under certain conditions may be of interest to operators.
Representatives of large shippers – NLMK, MMK, Evraz, Severstal, PhosAgro, Mechel, UC Rusal on Sunday did not respond to a request “Vedomosti”.
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