EVENTS AIMED AT THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SERVICE “CONTAINER EXPRESS” WITH THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INCREASING THE SPEED OF CARGO DELIVERY

Abstract

Economic relations within the country are impossible without transporting goods over long distances. For these purposes, all kinds of transport are used. The topic of container transportation and the Container Express service is important in the modern logistics system, which covers a wide range of issues related to more efficient transportation of goods. Nowadays, it is important for representatives of small and medium-sized businesses to have a wide selection of affordable and high-quality logistics services in the Russia-China route. The new services provided for the transportation of goods by express container trains for the transportation of consolidated cargo in the Russia-China connection, launched by JSC Russian Railways together with JSC Russian Railways Logistics, Russian Railways Business Asset will allow the delivery of goods to consumers, providing a full range of services for cargo consolidation, train dispatch strictly on schedule, providing customer support along the entire cargo route. Container shipping is the most convenient and safe way to deliver goods both internationally and locally. In this article, the authors highlighted both the pros and cons of transporting goods using containers, which clearly show why the containerization trend in Russia is growing every year.

In the scientific article, the authors performed an analysis of the provision of cargo delivery services by the Freight Express service on the East Siberian Railway of a branch of Russian Railways OJSC.

A method for transporting empty containers in wagons has been considered, which is an important economic decision; in this regard, new technical conditions for placing and securing containers on high-speed flat wagons have been developed and approved. Currently, a high-speed container transportation project is being implemented, which was jointly launched by Russian Railways OJSC and Russian Post. Container express is one of the more efficient and high-speed formats of container transportation; it can significantly reduce the time of cargo transportation within the Vorsino-Novorossiysk route, since Novorossiysk has sea terminals with developed infrastructure, which allows various companies and entrepreneurs to quickly receive cargo from South-South. Western Asia.