JSC TransContainer celebrates the anniversary of cooperation with Volkswagen Group Rus LLC by sending the 1,500th train with car parts for the plant in Kaluga from Brest.

Since 2008, JSC TransContainer and DB Schenker Rail Automotive (Germany) have been the general logistics partners of Volkswagen AG for transportation to Russia. To date, the project is a well-organized process for the delivery of car parts from European supplier plants of the car concern to the plants of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC in Russia. In the opposite direction, containers with reusable packaging or empty containers are transported. Container trains run between Brest and the Kaluga Volkswagen plant on average six times a week, that is, almost every day.

Under this project, JSC TransContainer provides a full range of freight forwarding services for the delivery of parts and car parts along the 1,520 mm gauge (routes Brest – Kaluga and Brest – Nizhny Novgorod) using its own equipment. The German partner provides the customer with the same service in the EU. Today, shipments are made from Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

For the entire duration of the project on the route Brest – Kaluga, the rolling stock of JSC TransContainer has already transported more than 200 thousand TEUs. The volume of cargo transported since the beginning of 2012 amounted to 31 thousand TEUs.

At the end of 2011, Volkswagen Group Rus LLC and GAZ Group entered into an agreement on the contract assembly of Volkswagen and Škoda cars at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod, due to which JSC TransContainer developed a new railway route. To date, 22 container trains that transported more than 3 thousand TEUs have followed this route.