Innorail Oy Railway Container Traffic Development between Europe, Russia and Asia

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Innorail OyRailway Container Traffic
Developmentbetween Europe, Russia and Asia
Munich, 28-29 September 2009
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Strategic trends

• Growing demand and investments in Russia
• Movement from one-way trade flows towards two-way
  international business between Russia and Europe
• Increasing challenges in road transports
• Growing railway transport and service industry
• Centralization development in ports and sea
  transports

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Russian Container Train Centers
The largest and fastest developing growth centers
in Russia are located on the Transsiberian
Railway. Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kazan,
Perm cities) and Urals (Yekaterinburg,
Chelyabinsk, Tyumen cities) Federal Districts are
the most important logistics hubs after Moscow
and St. Petersburg.
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Leading Northern European Service Companies form
a Development Platform
FINLAND
RUSSIA
Kouvola
4400 km
2800 km
Tyumen
Novosibirsk
2400 km
Yekaterinburg
Perm
Astana
Moscow
Ufa
Chelyabinsk
Samara
Almaty
KAZAKHSTAN
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New Board of Directors represents railway service
industry and major European customer potential
Mikko HaapanenChairman of the Board
Lasse PaitsolaCEO Nurminen Logistics Oyj, Vice
Chairman of the Board
Kimmo NordströmChairman of the Board Container
Finance
Markus NymanCEO Kuehne Nagel
Ilkka SeppänenDirector Finnish Railways
Semen RezerPresident Forwarders Guild
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Mission

• Innorail produces container traffic development
  services for merchants, service companiesand
  public organisationsin Europe and Russia

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Container Block Trains1. Kouvola - Urals
(Yekaterinburg) - Kouvola2. Kouvola - Volga
Federal District (N. Novgorod Perm) - Kouvola

• Increase the efficiency of transports between
  Europe and Urals and Volga Federal Districts by
  developing regular two-way container block train
  traffic between Kouvola and Russian HUBs

Urals
Kouvola
Container block trains
Finnish HUB
Russian HUB
Russian HUB

• Urals Volga Fed. Districts
• 42 mill. inhabitants
• 303 cities
• 1/3 of Russian Gross Regional Product
• Hundreds of factories
• Hundreds of foreign firms
• Presence of all the important retail chains and
  their DCs
• Over 9/10 of Russian gas
• Over 2/3 of Russian oil

Russian HUB
Volga
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Joint Challenges and Development Areas

• Tariffs
• Competitive through-tariffs for container block
  trains
• Border crossing and customs
• Border crossing without delays nor other problems
  
• Fast and easy customs procedures in hubs
• Cooperation network
• Willingness and ability of cargo owners to use
  containers
• Cultural know-how and mutual understanding
• On-site training and experience exchange

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• Future is in container block train transports!