Rail freight
Competitive and eco-friendly solutions for your long-distance transport
Are you looking for efficient answers to complex transportation issues, such as covering long distances, serving congested areas, transporting significant volumes, heavy lift equipment, raw materials?
Do you want to combine economic performance and environmental commitments to create sustainable value ? We provide you with eco-friendly competitive rail solutions and offer you an access to the main strategic rail routes.
Reliable routes between major economic regions
The dynamics of the modern market requires new logistics solutions. For these purposes, the company develops its operating network in Russia and abroad and offers integrated railway solutions using the network of Russian Railways, railways of the CIS countries, China, and Mongolia. Due to the large volumes of transport in car carriers, we can offer a competitive transport solution for any railway project.
Railway routes:
- Russia and CIS countries <–> Asia
- Transportation on the territory of the CIS countries
- Transportation from Asia
- Domestic transportation
Silk Road: innovative directions
Rail solutions are a sustainable alternative to other modes of transportation: twice as fast as shipping by sea and ten times cheaper than airfreight.
Due to a wide network of partners, GEFCO Russia has operational capabilities across Russia, Asia and the CIS and offers its customers innovative rail solutions for special and scheduled service.
- 3-4 weeks: transit delivery time between China and Russia.
- Fuel prices have little effect on the cost of transportation.
- The amount of CO2 emissions is half that of maritime transport.
- Availability of regular trains every week.
Choose the rail solution that matches your business needs
With our rail freight solution, you can transport both your raw materials and finished products via conventional or combined transport.
- Conventional transport
Door-to-door solution via train only, with or without transhipment. The goods are loaded directly into the wagon. This solution is ideal for the transport of your raw material supplies and the transport of vehicles exiting the factory. It makes it possible to deliver large volumes at lower costs.
- Combined transport
Goods are loaded into an Intermodal Transport Unit (ITU). It can be a semi-trailer, a swap body or a container. We combine different transport modes : Ocean + Rail, Road + Rail. This solution is perfect for shifting, from road to a more green transport mode.
Automotive: optimise your finished vehicle transportation
As the expert in automotive logistics and to meet your needs in terms of cost, lead times, quality and CO2 reduction, we have made rail transport a priority. GEFCO Russia considers rail transportation to be one of the priority areas for development. Every year, GEFCO Russia transports thousands of new vehicles in its own fleet of car carriers.
- Double-deck wagons, mobile decks, flat wagons to optimise the loading
- Wagons equipped with protection systems to ensure security: mesh sides, specific wedging systems...
- Departures several times a week
- End-to-end track and trace
Agricultural, building materials, mining and handling equipment: benefit from a turnkey solution for your oversized products
As an expert in oversized equipment logistics, we offer you end-to-end turnkey rail solutions tailored to the weight and volume of your equipment.
- Adapted transport of out of gauge goods with appropriate lashing, handling and packaging
- Multimodal solution with secure transhipment
- Rental of wagon equipment on spot and long-term basis
- End-to-end track and trace
Energy and steel transport: Secure your massive flows
As an expert in logistics in the energy sector, we offer turnkey end-to-end rail transport solutions for transporting your raw materials and equipment.
- Dedicated block trains with optimised costs thanks to our large panel of sub-contractors
- Transport of liquid raw materials with tank wagons, tank containers or flexitanks
- Transport of coil with appropriate wagon and optimisation of loading capacity
- Rental of wagon equipment on spot and long-term basis
- Transloading of product in dedicated terminals
- Secure door-to-door management of the flows
High-Tech: choosing security and efficiency
As a high-tech logistics expert, we offer end-to-end rail transport solutions that meet your security, transit times and sustainable development requirements.
- Containers with GPS
- Real-time location tracking
- Real-time alerts (SMS / E-mail)
- Permanent monitoring of temperature and humidity levels
- Vibrations tracking
- Light detector.
Fashion industry: transport your products on hangers from door to door
As an expert in fashion logistics, we offer door-to-door GOH integrated solutions that ensure the integrity of your products and accelerate your time to market.
- Door-to-door multimodal services for fashion.
- Our solution includes:
- pre-carriage via GOH truck
- terminal to terminal transport via rail
Our offer of GOH containers:
- GOH 40‘-2 level / 44 hanging bars
- GOH 20’-1 level / 22 hanging bars.
> 700
car carriers
Access to 85200
km of Russian railroads network
Official payer
of Russian railway rates
