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"Unload" the road with piggyback

2012-10-24

President of JSC "Russian Railways" Vladimir Yakunin believes it possible to establish piggyback (transportation vehicles with goods by rail) to areas where congested roads.

Joint plan of organization in piggyback transport between Russia and France was signed a month ago in Helsinki. Launching the project in 2013. In 2011, a series of test flights with empty piggyback trailers and commercial cargo on Finnish platforms on the Helsinki-St Petersburg-Moscow.

"Traffic jams that occur on the Russian-Finnish border in the shipping of heavy trucks, sometimes stretching for tens of kilometers. We have long considered the question, is it possible to improve this situation, and then performed a few test shipments, and now, when the agreement was signed, we want to put them on an ongoing basis to ensure the transport of trailers, and can be, and trains ", - said the head of Russian Railways.

He added that the European countries that are active in the fight to protect the environment, piggybacking has long been a common type of services. According to Vladimir Yakunin piggyback can be organized and on routes to Poland.

According to experts, cargo base piggyback on the so-called "1520" (the country with 1520 mm, including Finland) will be about 40 million tons a year.

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