{"id":2100,"date":"2019-08-29T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.aurumgroup.ua\/?post_type=news&p=2100"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:28:11","slug":"private-fleet-what-makes-business-buy-more-cars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/media.aurumgroup.ua\/?news=private-fleet-what-makes-business-buy-more-cars&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Private fleet: what makes business buy more cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of private owners of gondola cars has increased from 274 to 340 for seven months<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of 1 August, the total fleet of freight cars in Ukraine amounted to 192.3 thousand units. 105.9 thousand (55.1%) of which are owned by \u201cUkrzaliznytsia\u201d, and 86.45 thousand (44.9%) \u2013 by private owners. Besides, at the beginning of July 69 out of 102 thousand gondola cars and 15 out of 24 thousand grain carriers were in working order.<\/p>\n

According to Volodymyr<\/strong> Ivashchuk<\/strong>, the chairman of the board of the \u201cUkrainian Logistics Alliance\u201d Association, over just seven months of 2019, the railway fleet was replenished with 6,009 cars. Almost all of them are gondola cars and grain carriers of private owners. As a result, the fleet of private grain carriers, for example, already exceeds railway facilities of \u201cUkrzaliznytsia\u201d in quantity.<\/p>\n

Individual cases<\/strong><\/p>\n

In general, car fleet data often refers to confidential. Among known facts of the purchase of cars by private owners in the first half of the year the purchase of 340 grain carriers by the \u201cFirst Logistics Company\u201d, 200 cars by Yeristovo Mining (Ferrexpo), and 20 grain carriers by \u201cNibulon\u201d can be named. It should be noted that the agrarian company did not plan to have its own rolling stock, but was forced to do this to solve its logistics problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of 1 July 2019, the Aurum Group\u2019s own freight car fleet amounts to 582 units. Thus, during the first half of the year it grew by 56 cars,\u201d adds Andrii Zharii, CEO of Aurum Group.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An approximate list of the largest private railcar owners as of the end of the first half of the year is as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cLemtrans\u201d – more than 20 thousand cars are under control;<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cKernel\u201d – 3.5 thousand grain carriers and tanks;<\/li>\n
  3. “IRC” (\u201cInvestment Railcar Company\u201d) – more than 2.5 thousand cars;<\/li>\n
  4. Ferrexpo – 2.45 thousand cars;<\/li>\n
  5. EBRD (through Crea company) – more than 2 thousand cars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was not possible to find out the size of the car fleet of \u201cMetinvest\u201d. However, there is evidence that it amounts approximately to 3 thousand units. Therefore, the company is eligible to be ranked among the conditional top five.<\/p>\n

    Only 13 private car owners have a fleet of more than 1,000 units, and only two owners have more than 1,000 grain carriers.<\/p>\n

    According to Volodymyr Ivashchuk, non-systemic actions of \u201cUkrzaliznytsia\u201d lead to the fact that the number of private car owners-freight forwarders is growing disproportionately in the country. Since the beginning of the year, their number in terms of gondola cars has grown from 274 as of 1 January to 340 as of the end of July, and in terms of grain carriers – from 73 to 110, respectively. Most of them do not intend to become logistics operators and deal with cargo transportation of other freighters. This greatly complicates the process of cargo transportation in terms of the formation and movement of trains and the return of empty cars.<\/p>\n

    Since the beginning of the year, the fleet of \u201cUkrzaliznytsia\u201d has not been replenished with new cars. Besides, only in July the state operator wrote off 22 cars, while private owners added 936 units over the same period.<\/p>\n

    Impact factors<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The need for own car fleet follows from the current state of the railway industry. According to Andrii Zharii, 64 thousand cars out of about 147 thousand cars of the working car fleet have already exhausted their statutory service life. It is necessary to add here another 12 thousand cars with a previously extended service life, which, as applied by their owners, prolong their life again.<\/p>\n

    The point is that annually the statutory service life of about 6 thous. freight cars is about to run out in Ukraine. The service life of some of them has been extended for 6 years several times. The age of the vehicle usually exceeds the statutory service life by 1.5-2 times.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHere one can add the unpredictable tariff policy of UZ, the constant increase in the size of the car component in the tariff. In this regard, transportation costs increase; taking other unreasonable decisions also leads to freighters\u2019 cost increases,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Andrii Zharii adds.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    According to Volodymyr Mezentsev<\/strong>, CEO of \u201cLemtrans\u201d, the need to purchase one\u2019s own cars is influenced by:<\/p>\n