The volume of rail freight transported by gondola cars of Aurum Group, according to the results of the first quarter of 2018, increased by 20% to 290,000 tons compared to the last year’s figure.
As Andrii Zhariy, the CEO of Aurum Group informs.
“Such a significant growth in traffic volume is due to an increase of private rail car fleet over 2017 and early 2018 by 122 units up to 477 units”, admitted A.Zhariy.
According to the CEO, in accordance with the long-term development strategy of Aurum Group, the company, using the capacity of its own enterprise “Diesel plant”, began to implement a comprehensive investment program to rejuvenate the park of gondola cars. “The average age of all gondola cars, which are used in Ukraine, is 18 years out of 22, defined by the standards. Despite the fact that the average age of gondola cars of Aurum Group is only 6 years, we are investing about 100 million UAH this year in the production of new cars with the aim of constant rejuvenation of the park, “A. Zhariy noted. It is to be recalled that Aurum Group on the basis of the car-building “Diesel plant” in 2017 began production of gondola cars of model 12-9933 and 12-9933-01, grain carriers and dump cars with a carrying capacity of 105 tons.
Today, Aurum Group manages its own fleet of freight cars, carries out roundhouse capital servicing and current repairs of gondola cars, makes spare parts and brake equipment for freight rail cars, does metalworking, makes frames and side walls for dump cars and customer designed metal structures.