STM-Service starts offering full-cycle maintenance service to Russian Railways’ locos

July 3, 2014. Starting from July 1, 2014, 26 locomotive maintenance depots formerly run by Russian Railways were handed over to the management of STM-Service (a member enterprise of Sinara Transport Machines Holding), the holding’s PR Department reports.

Under the contract the company has signed with Russian Railways, STM-Service is now offering full-cycle maintenance services to about 5,000 locomotives (8,200 sections) of various series ranging from freight mainline AC and DC locos to freight diesel-locomotive shunters and mainline locomotives to electric and diesel passenger locos.

STM-Service is now completing the procedure of taking on the staff teams of loco O&M depots located in Sverdlovsk Railways, West-Siberian Railways, South-Ural Railways, Kyibyshev Railways, and Moscow Railways. All the workers who are being newly hired by STM-Service will retain their social benefits packages they had at Russian Railways. The total number of employees working for STM-Service will thus come to over 12,000 people.

Now Russian Railways coordinated an open-entry auction in April 2014 in order to implement its strategy for the development of its locomotive maintenance services. STM-Service outstripped its rivals in three lots, and the loco maintenance contract was signed by Russian Railways and STM-Service on April 30, 2014.