UVZ-Logistic comes to own 10,000 carriages

November 18, 2013. At the moment, UVZ Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is operating more than 29,000 railway vehicles, including 21,000 items that are owned by the forwarder. According to the corporation’s press officer, this freight forwarder operates 20,000 all-purpose gondola cars and more than 2,000 innovative railway carriages with increased axial loading. There are also 8,000 tanks. One big advantage of the company’s fleet of vehicles is the fact that the items are new: all of UVZ Logistic’s carriages and tanks are under 3 years old. ‘The company is moving confidently

June 4, 2013. Sberbank Leasing is handing over to UVZ-Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) about 7,500 railway carriages. The lease contract was signed by acting Director-General of Sberbank Leasing Kirill Tzarev and Director-General of UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev during the 8th International Railway Business Forum on Strategic Partnership 1520 in Sochi, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press officer reports. It is reported that this is the largest contract on the Russian railway carriage leasing market at the moment. The project is worth about 30bn RUR

October 18, 2013. UVZ Logistic is planning to buy over 2,500 railway carriages with enhanced freight capacity of 75,000 kg from Uralvagonzavod in 2013. The freight forwarder currently operates 1,800 such carriages, but UVZ Logistic is actually expected to have 8,000 of them by the end of 2014 and to add 5,000 more carriages to this fleet every year, Uralvagonzavod's press service reports. Buying the innovative carriages will both help the company expand its fleet of vehicles and serve as a weighty competitive advantage, as enhanced freight capacity stands for many benefits for both the

December 24, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation, UVZ Logistic, and Sberbank Leasing signed a major contract on the lease of railway rolling stock in December 2014, the corporation’s press service reports. Sberbank Leasing handed more than 10,000 railway carriages (including 1,800 innovative gondola cars) over to UVZ Logistic. The fifteen-year contract’s total worth (considering the lease payments) comes to about 40bn RUR. The funding is secured by Sberbank of Russia’s Moscow branch. The rolling stock in question comprises tank cars 15-156-04, 15-156-03, 15-150-04, 15-5103-07, and 15-157;

June 4, 2013. The top managers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the section dedicated to the ‘broad gage’ problem in the course of Strategic Partnership 1520 Business Forum in Sochi. According to the holding’s press service, the Director-General of the corporation’s daughter company UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev made a report on the railway carriage manufacturers as freight forwarders and therefore on the aspects of a new business strategy. In his introductory speech, he said that the freight forwarding market and its future prospects did not look good.