The greatest effect from application trailer on flat car service is formed at transportation of lorry convoys (piggyback trailers) on a long distance.
The brief analysis of development of trailer on flat car service abroad shows, that high speed of development are characteristic for them. They are alternative to container transportations and are well combined with them.
It is obvious, that the main condition of success of trailer on flat car service in the CIS countries will be presence of demand for this service at autocarriers.
The Belorussian railway has rather poor experience on the organization of trailer on flat car service. Now on road there is no working project of such train, and in total amount of transit cargoes a share of trailer on flat car service constitute less than 0,01 %.
During last 15 years the Belorussian railway nevertheless undertook attempts of the organization of trailer on flat car service. So on May, 16th and 17, 1998 with participation of group of experts of the Brest department of road the experimental loading of eleven refrigerator lorry convoys has been organized at station Malasheviche. Refrigerator lorry convoys have been loaded on the improved specialized platforms of type 13-9009М that were in property of the Russian railway. Also forwarding firms together with roads of Poland and the Belorussian railway repeatedly studied questions of realization of the combined transportations of lorries on railway platforms on a route Brest-Shepin-Brest.
Results of experimental loading at station Malasheviche have shown, that the mentioned above platforms have a great number of constructive lacks which makes loading of platforms difficult, extend loading operations. Loading and fastening of one car was carried out for 1 hour. Besides damages of machines have been noticed.
In the beginning of 2001 opening the communications Brest-Shepin-Brest was planned. On this route it was supposed regular movement of trains objects between the container terminal Brest and the terminal in Shepin.
Trains would transport complete lorry convoys (the tractor and the trailer). The driver should travel in a sleeper. The full volume of train allowed for an opportunity of simultaneous transportation up to 21 lorry convoys.
Introduction of this communications would allow to remove from motorways in a transport corridor the East-West almost 21500 lorries within the first year after prospective opening this communications, that considerably would unload roads and road boundary posts.
Before the development of this project the company POLKOMBI carry out the marketing researches, which have shown, that the price of transportation of one lorry convoy on a route Shepin-Brest would constitute at that time 650-700 German Marks It was supposed, that crossing should not last more than 10-12 hours.
The Brest department of road together with other departments involved in transportation had developed Uniform technology of processing of the combined train.
On a number of the objective and subjective reasons the realization of transportation on a route Brest-Shepin-Brest did not take place, though the organization of the train plying on the given route, would allow reduce big turns on automobile boundary posts, considerably would unload the movement on an automobile line and would improve ecological conditions in the countries-participants of transportation.
Since 2002 the Belorussian railway together with the Polish and German railways studies questions of the organization of the combined transportations on a route Frankfurt-on-Odra-Brest. However in view of necessity of significant capital investments on a specialized rolling stock, on equipment of places of loading-unloading and in view of absence of interest of autocarriers these transportations are not organized till nowadays.
So in 2004 the project of transportation of lorries on railway platforms from Brest up to Frankfurt-on-Odra transit across Poland, by which operator has been chosen “Mirtrans” Open Company, has been postponed. Transportation did not take place whereas according to the project was planned to transport only loaded and empty piggyback trailers on specialized platforms of the property of Slovak railways. Negotiations on this question last more then half a year, Slovak railways have found another work for their platforms and “Mirtrans” Open Company have been refused in their lease. The second negative reason was that as the supplier of empty and loaded piggyback trailers was “Belcargo” Company which incurred obligations to give about 70 piggyback trailers in a week for their transportation. But the rented trailers have been withdrawn at “Belcargo”, and the company was not in a condition to give for rail transportation necessary quantity of piggyback trailers, i.e. there was no the client interested in the project of the trailer on flat car service.
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