What discounts to the railway tariff do metallurgists have

For 2022, Russian Railways has extended previously introduced discounts for the transportation of a wide range of metallurgical cargo. Among them: a 50% discount on the transportation of ferrous metals through the Samur border crossing on the border with Azerbaijan and further through the Boyuk-Kyasik-Gardabani border crossing on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border, 24.2% on the transportation of metal pipes from the Liski station to Arkhangelsk, 8 .5% – for the transportation of copper concentrate from the Gai station to the Mednogorsk station, 10.7% – for the transportation of copper ore from the Rezh station to the Verkhnyaya and Ezhevaya stations, 47% – for the transportation of rolled ferrous metals from the Polevskoy station to the Kamensk-Uralsky station, 12.9% and 6% – for the transportation of steel billets from the Revda station to the Nizhneserginskaya and Apparatnaya stations, respectively, 16.3% – for the transportation of ferrous scrap to the Komsomolsk-on-Amur station. A 19.6% discount is given for export transportation of other types of rolled ferrous metals, steel billets and pipes made of ferrous metals from the Cherepovets-2 station of the Northern Railway to the stations of Cape Astafiev and Nakhodka-Vostochnaya. Up to 50% is a discount for domestic transportation over a distance of up to 720 km, 17.5% – for transportation on transporter cars. From September 1, there is an 11.1% discount on export shipments of slabs from the Novolipetsk station to the Tuapse-Sortirovochnaya station.

In a letter from Russian Steel, it is reported that for the transportation of metal products in specialized containers (various containers of category P), “the cumulative increase in the railway tariff (only the infrastructure component, excluding the rate per wagon / container) from January 2022 to January 2023 will amount to 334– 337%”. Russian Railways explains that such an increase in tariffs was caused by the appeal of the Union of Railway Transport Operators (SOZhT), which was dissatisfied with the different levels of tariffs for the transportation of rolled steel in coils “using platform containers produced by unfriendly countries in relation to the transportation of this cargo on universal platforms and gondola cars.

Natalya Skorlygina