Serbia Railways

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Serbia Railways

• Railway Industry

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Railway Network
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General characteristics

• Total length of lines - 3808 ?m
• Single-track lines 3533 km
• Double track lines 275 km
• Electrified lines 1196 km
• Main arterial routes 1768 ?m
• Branch lines 810 ?m
• Standard gauge 1435 mm

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General Characteristics

• Maximum gradient 25 0/00
• Maximum axle load 22.5 t/ax
• Traction units 508 (average age of 30 years)
• Passenger stocks 559 (average age of 27 years)
• Freight stocks 14803 (average age of 30 years)
• Number of employees 29.900

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Corridor X
Railway Infrastructure
Corridor X Salzburg Ljubljana Zagreb
Belgrade Nis Skopje Thessaloniki Branch A
Graz Maribor Zagreb Branch B Budapest Novi
Sad Belgrade Branch C Nis Sofia on
Corridor IV for Istambul Branch D Veles Bitola
Florina Via Egnatia
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Corridor X
Railway Infrastructure
Total length of Corridor X through Serbia is
767 km 32 of total length of Corridor X
Corridor X (Croatia) Sid Belgrade Nis
Presevo (Macedonia) 519 km Corridor X
branch B (Belgrade) Novi Sad Subotica
(Hungary) 144 km Corridor X branch C Nis
Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria) 104 km
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EIB Euro 70 mil

• Reconstruction of critical sections of railway on
  Corridor X and sections of railroad Belgrade-Bar
• Section Kusadak Velika Plana (L 21,97 km) of
  railway Belgrade-Nis
• Section Cortanovci - Petrovaradin (L 15,0 km)
  of railway Belgrade-Subotica
• Section Dimitrovgrad border with Bulgaria (L
  7,15 km) of railway Nis-Dimitrovgrad
• Section Resnik-Valjevo (L 41,0 km) of railway
  Belgrade-Bar

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EBRD- Euro 57 mil

• Purchase of locomotives
• Mechanization for maintenance of railroads
• Social program

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Volume of passenger traffic

• 1990 46 mil passengers
• 2000 11 mil passengers
• 1990 4221 mil passenger km
• 2000 1236 mil passenger km

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Volume of freight traffic

• In 2001 , total volume of freight traffic has
  decreased more than 4 times compared to 1990
• International volume of freight traffic is
  considerably less than in 1990 .Only transit in
  2001 reached 1990 level

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Last decade retrospective

• No investments in railway infrastructure,
  tractive and rolling stock
• Regular maintenance at the lowest level
• Low level of cooperation with countries from
  region
• International isolation
• Inadequate personnel policy

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Consequences

• Infrastructure objects in bad condition
• High percentage of defective rolling stocks
• Low quality of service
• Considerable debts of national carrier
• Surplus of employees
• On 42.8 of total length of tracks speed is up
  to 60 km /hour
• On 11.3 of total length of tracks speed is
  60-80 km / hour
• On 45.9 of total length of tracks speed is
  80-100 km / hour

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Government of the Republic of Serbia
Objectives

• Improvement of efficiency in railways system of
  the Republic of Serbia
• Integration in the market of transport services
• Integration of Serbian railways into the railways
  system of European Union

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Plan for problem solving

• Law on Railways
• Founding of Public Enterprise Serbian Railways
• Financial consolidation
• Debts servicing
• Restructuring of Company
• Social program

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Limitations

• Budget limitations impose that investments cannot
  origin from domestic financial funds, but we need
  to obtain credits from financial institutions.
• Budget funds and business revenues can only be
  used for current maintenance of infrastructure
  objects to the maximum extent necessary for the
  safe and regular traffic.

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Railway Industry

• As the Railway Company itself, companies that
  are involved in the production of equipment and
  railway devices, maintenance of railway
  infrastructure objects and production and
  maintenance of railways and rolling stocks, are
  in the same position since they are closely
  connected to the Railway Company.

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Railway Industry

• In most of these companies teams for
  restructuring of companies have been appointed .
  In some cases this process implies ownership
  transformation.
• Coordinator of all these teams for restructuring
  is a state agency for privatization, which is
  under the authority of the Ministry of economy
  and privatization.

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Factory of Guided Vehicles Gosa

• Number of employees 1136 (total)
• Production of guided vehicles for passenger
  traffic
• Production of freight wagons
• Repair of passenger and freight wagons
• Capacity - 32.843 m2 of business premises out of
  which 27.998 m2 production halls

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Zelvoz Smederevo

• Number of employees 2079
• Maintenance and repair of railway passenger and
  freight wagons
• Maintenance and repair of railway electric motor
  sets
• Capacity - 70.000 m2 of production halls ad
  working premises

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Sinvoz Zrenjanin

• Number of employees 893
• Production of spare parts and structures for
  track vehicles
• Maintenance and repair of diesel-electric and
  diesel-hydraulic locomotives
• Maintenance and repair of railway electrical
  motors and diesel motors sets
• Capacity - 60.000 m2 of production halls and
  working premises

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Bratstvo Subotica

• Number of employees 693
• Designing, production, investing and current
  repairs of all types of freight and tank wagons
• Production of spare parts and different
  structures for freight wagons
• Capacity - 20.000 m2 of roofed production
  premises in the factory

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Factory of wagons Kraljevo

• Number of employees 500
• Production and repair of tank wagons and special
  freight wagons
• Production and repair of other types of freight
  wagons
• Capacity - 500 freight wagons per a year

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MIN - Vagonka

• Number of employees 352
• Production, repair and reconstruction of freight
  wagons and tank wagons of all types
• Capacity - 27.419 m2 of premises for production

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MIN- Lokomotiva

• Number of employees 646
• Repair of electrical locomotives series 441 ?
  461
• Repair of diesel electrical locomotives series
  661, 645, 666, 664

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Final Remarks

• Railway industry in Serbia needs cooperation with
  foreign companies in order join the quality
  service providers
• It will take the full support from the European
  Union for Serbian Railway Company to achieve high
  level of quality of services and thus integrate
  itself into the modern European market, which
  will be beneficial for both Europe and Serbia