Rail Freight Shipping: Wagons, Containers, Tanks
Railway freight shipping by rail wagons. Railway wagon rental.
Purpose of railway wagons: international shipping by rail with standard and specialized cargo, oversized and hazardous goods. Shipping of bulk liquids in tank wagons and bulk solids in hopper wagons. Fast and reliable rail shipping of perishable cargo in refrigerated sections (5, 20, 23 wagons). Shipping of large and long cargo on platform wagons. Loading and unloading operations are carried out with specialized equipment operated by experienced personnel.
Types of wagons: covered universal and specialized wagons with carrying capacity of 68-71-120-132 t., volume – 120-138.0 m³. They are ordered for shipping standard, industrial, household cargo, for shipping paper in rolls, packaged lightweight lumber, stackable, unit, package-unit cargo, goods on pallets and other cargo.
Autonomous insulated wagons and refrigerated sections of 5, 20, 23 wagons. Carrying capacity and volume of one wagon - 43-49 t. and 94.5-108.0 m³. Carrying capacity of a five-wagon refrigerated section - 160–200 t. Ordered for shipping perishable cargo: food products, as well as flowers and medicines.
Thermos wagons with carrying capacity of 60 tonnes and volume – 128 m³. Ordered for shipping perishable liquid cargo.
Open gondolas with carrying capacity of 71 t. and volume of 75.2 m³. Ordered for shipping various cargo not requiring protection from precipitation: building materials, bulk cargo, non-dust, bulk cargo (coal, ore and others), stackable and unit cargo. Tarpaulin may be used as top cover.
Grain wagons, hoppers, mineral wagons with carrying capacity of 70 tonnes and volume of 60-72 m³, 81-87 m³. Ordered for shipping food and non-food bulk cargo, fertilizers, minerals, for bunkless shipping of lightweight granulated coarse-grain, crystalline, corrosion-active mineral cargo.
Tank wagons with capacity – 60 - 125 t. Ordered for shipping liquid food and hazardous chemical cargo.
Heavy-duty wagons with carrying capacity - 55 - 220 – 480 tonnes depending on modification. Ordered for shipping large-sized and heavy cargo, special equipment, agricultural machinery, machine tools and other equipment.
Platform wagons (universal and specialized) length 13-14 m - 18-22 m. and carrying capacity - 60-75 tonnes. Ordered for shipping 20 and 40 foot large-tonnage containers, tank containers, vehicles, long cargo.
Many railway wagon owners provide railway wagon rental services, sections, and entire railway trains. Note that wagon rental is economically beneficial for cargo owners. First, railway shipping itself is inexpensive relative to other methods of cargo delivery; second, wagon rental eliminates the need to search for a railway carrier each time or to purchase and maintain rolling stock in your own possession. Affordable railway wagon rental costs, the ability to order any type of wagon at any time, make this service popular among cargo owners.
Railway freight shipping by countries: this is Russia (European and Asian part – Urals, Siberia) up to China and Mongolia, CIS countries, Eastern and Western European countries.
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