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Ruscon launches dedicated train from Ust-Luga to carry Volkswagen CKD parts
07/12/2013Ruscon has launched a new block train from Ust-Luga port (ULCT terminal) to Nizhniy Novgorod to supply the Volkswagen assembly plant located there. The dedicated trains, carrying 54 x 40’ containers of CKD parts, will leave the port on the Russian Baltic four times a week, taking two and a ...
Through transportation of heavy machinery from China
07/10/2013Ruscon Ltd. has successfully completed door delivery of crawler bulldozers from China to Russia via port of Novorossiysk. The Shanghai office of the company accepted the machinery from the shipper factory, carried out the necessary survey, loading and fastening of cargo on flat-containers.
Ruscon adds to container truck fleet to deliver CKD parts to Hyundai in St Petersburg
03/19/2013Ruscon, one of Russia’s leading container transport operators, is taking delivery of 20 new trucks at the end of March to service its contract with Hyundai Motors.
In January 2013 the total container turnover of Russian seaports made up 383977 TEU (+11,9 % Year-on-Year)
03/01/2013Санкт-Петербург обработал 177668 TEU (+4 %)Новороссийск – 62326 TEU (+31,6 %)Калининград - 23110 TEU (+2,5 %)Восточный – 36492 TEU (+10,1 %), в т.ч. внешнеторговые грузы – 33834 TEU (+10,4 %)Владивосток – 52811 TEU (+20,2%), в т.ч. внешнеторговые грузы - 40654 TEU (+25,3 %)
GCS completes substantial investment programme expanding capacity at its MANP terminal in Moscow
02/13/2013
Global Container Services (GCS) has added a second rail-mounted gantry crane (RMG) at its MANP terminal on the outskirts of Moscow. This has increased the number of train arrivals it can handle up to five or six per week. In addition, it has increased the container yard (CY) capacity to ...
GCS/Ruscon launches an Ust-Luga - Nizhniy Novgorod block train service for General Motors Korea
01/09/2013A new block train service is being launched by GCS/Ruscon out of the new Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT). It will run a distance of over 1,100km to Nizhniy Novgorod. Nizhniy Novgorod is Russia’s fifth largest city and is located over 400km to the east of Moscow.
GCS expands the fleet of own flat-cars
03/27/2012
GCS has ordered 224 x 80’-long flat-cars for transportation of containers. The order has been placed at “TMH Wagon-construction” plant belonging to the Trans-Mash holding. Delivery of the first 32 flat-cars is expected by the mid of April 2012.
The new block-train launched by GCS
01/20/2012The railway operator Ruscon, belonging the GCS group launched the new block-train from the port of Novorossiysk from December 2011.
Ruscon expands its trucking fleet
12/21/2011Ruscon Ltd., the transport operator belonging to the GCS group, commissioned 20 new MAN container trucks. Thus own truck fleet of the company increased to 115 units.