As per the Russian Rail company’s First Deputy CEO, Alexander Misharin, Russia and India plan to create a joint rail freight operator for boosting traffic of goods from India to Europe through Russia. Both the Indian Railways and Russian Railways plan to work together.
He said that Russian Railways is planning to deliver rolling stock to Indian Railways, adding that the first batch will include 100 railroad cars. In the first batch there are 100 railroad cars.
And there is further big prospects because the market here can be measured in thousands of railroad cars said Misharin. The volume rail traffic in India is high so entering this market is very important and interesting for Russian Railways.
“The important area of cooperation, which has been developing this year, is the organisation of shipping, including in the North–South Transport Corridor, and the creation of a joint operator… We believe that it is one of the most important aspects which will allow for significantly increasing the volumes of shipping and traffic of goods from India and Europe and in the opposite direction through the Russian territory,” Misharin told reporters.
“Today, we will discuss the joint organisation and the delivery of the rolling stock as well as the localizsation [of manufacturing] and the organisation of building railroad cars here,” Misharin said.
