SCR sums up results of work in November 2016 

ArmInfo.CEO of "South-Caucasus Railway" CJSC Sergey Valko summed up the results of the company's activities in November 2016. He noted that the month was marked with two important events: the first electric train was put to operation and the first experimental multi-modal cargo transportation from Europe to Iran by using SCR infrastructure was carried out. 

Valko noted that the scheduled task of cargo transportation has been  carried out by 105.1% in November.  At the same time transportation  on local directions grew by 10.1% or 12.7 thousand tons. 

According to the data provided by the Director of the company growth  was registered in such key indicators of work as average daily  mileage and efficiency of railroad engine. Service speed increased by  5.3% compared to 2015 and reached 35.8 km/h versus planned 34km/h,  while operating speed made 41km/h versus planned 34.9km/h growing by  3.3% y-o-y. 

At the same time wagon turnaround declined: at the end of November  the indicator totaled 2.7 days versus planned 2.8 days. 

Touching upon the train time-schedule the CEO of SCR informed that in  November 1030 trains passed by the railway, 10 19 of which according  to timetable.  Valko stressed that control should be improved on  keeping the timetable. 

The CEO of the company especially pointed at the security issues on  the railway. He informed that within 11 months more than 39.4  thousand sleepers were replaced, 20 thousand of which are concrete  sleepers and 10 thousand are wood sleepers. 

According to Valko the top-priority tasks for the next year are  completion of preparatory work for winter season and improvement of  work for attracting new amounts of cargo transportation.