Russian Railways asked to increase tariffs due to security costs

Company Russian Railways asked the government to further increase the freight rate by 1% due to transport security costs. About it informed Kommersant, citing sources.

According to the publication, at the end of last year, the cost of transport security amounted to 45 billion rubles, which is more than twice the amount of funds within the framework of tariff indexation by 1%. To ensure the safety of Russian Railways, among other things, it attracts special forces to protect facilities.

In the office of First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, questions were forwarded to Russian RailwaysThe company declined to comment. At the end of July, the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin expelled an increase in the number of sabotage and state of emergency on the railways. “And today there are no objective grounds to assert that the number of such crimes has increased,” he said.

In mid-February, Vedomosti wrotethat Russian Railways proposed to revise tariffs for 2024 and 2025. and set a target markup of 1% and 2%, respectively.

It is specified that in 2022 tariffs were indexed to a record value for recent years: at the beginning of the year they were increased by 6.8%, and from June 1, by an additional 11%. From January 1, 2023, the Russian Railways tariff rate increased by 8%, in 2024 it is planned to index by another 7.1%. And the allowance for overhaul in 2023-2025. will be 2, 7 and 7%, respectively.