New life

Starting from the 1st of October railroads, having become regional centres, will have to provide technological and corporate coordination of the activity of the holding’s territorial subdivisions.

At VIII Assembly of the heads of railroads in Samara the President of RZD Mr Vladimir Yakunin noted that the issue of the railroads’ readiness to functioning as regional centres is dominating for the whole system of the new corporate management. Technological coordination will be aimed at operational work coordination, and corporate coordination will ensure strategic unity of the company by means of the uniform policy implementation.
Vladimir Yakunin emphasised that he delegated part of his presidential powers to heads of railroads, the same happened to directories’ central offices in relation to their brunches. Regional centres will be concentrated on development and control of the balanced purpose-oriented activity parameters that will correspond to the holding’s development strategy. In this connection there will be reviewed norms for personal participation of the heads of railroads and their deputies in management processes and business activities. By the example of Oktyabrskaya railroad the company’s Head drew attention to the importance of regional executive commissions at all levels. The railroad’s Head acts as the Chairman of such commission at the level of a railroad. Executive regional groups are headed by Deputy Head of the railroad, and finally there are junction working groups headed by Heads of stations, that, as explained by the Head of railroad Viktor Stepanov, act as integrators of single transportation process.

Senior Vice-president of the company Mr Valeriy Reshetnikov drew attention to the fact that ideology of junction groups is built on the principal of the Central traffic management directory’s leadership. And in this respect life itself shows that the Central traffic management directory’s leadership promotes effectiveness of transportation services. New opportunities of the technological coordination already fructified. Oktyabrskaya and Severnaya railroads succeeded in realisation of the project of door-to-door delivery of goods for the company Severstal. The project of continuous welded rails technology at the direction Yaroslavl – Sonkovo – Dno – western border is waiting for its turn to be realised. In order to optimise operation of diesel locomotives and locomotive brigades at the two railroads and reduce their number it is proposed to run locomotives through Sonkovo station without changing connection rods, which will save up to 72 mln RUB per year.

Head of Severnaya railroad Mr Alexey Mironov noted importance of regional and interregional coordination boards’ engagement in the corporate and technological coordination system. Their work resulted in growth of the rate of subsidies granted for compensation of suburban companies’ losses by 12% as compared to the previous year.

Almost all regions within the railroad bounds announced their intentions to make provisions for breakeven result of suburban services upon the outcome of the current year. Mr Alexey Mironov stood for development of standard rules of cooperation between Deputy Heads of railroads and all subdivisions of branches and the railroads themselves. The standard agreement of cooperation between railroads and branches, daughter companies and their subdivisions shall also be revised. Also, development of rules of cooperation between the Central traffic management directory and the concerned directories shall be finalised. In addition to this, it was proposed to develop a uniform technological process for passenger traffic on Sverdlovskoy railroad.

Head of Zapadno-Sibirskaya railroad Mr Alexandr Tselko noted that the coordination boards’ activity helped in finding solution regarding optimisation of car fleets management. Only twelve rolling stock operators work in Kuzbass, all small operators consolidated their fleets into one that amounts to 23 000 carriages. Optimisation of operators at load stations, as well as growth of empty stock rooting percentage will be the next step.

When summarising the assembly Mr Vladimir Yakunin noted that the targets on organisation of effective, stable and safe operation of railroads can be realised only in case when the declared client-centeredness finds an outcome in specific support of the main clients – freight owners and passengers.