A strategic priority is for the Russian Railways Group to establish a diversified product basket with a transition from providing mostly transportation services to providing freight owners with complex integrated door-to-door services with a subsequent expansion in the spectrum from 2PL to 3PL and 4PL services and the formation of global logistics chains.

Functions

• organising work with consignors
• establishing and developing a transport service system
• developing operator and logistics activities

Branches and companies of the Russian Railways Group

Operating within the business unit are subsidiaries, affiliates and branches of Russian Railways, which include the major freight operators:

• Federal Passenger Company;
• UTLC (including TransContainer and Russian Railways Logistics);
• GEFCO

Functions

• Providing transportation services for passengers, baggage and cargo luggage
• Passenger service and passenger rolling stock maintenance

A strategic priority is to expand the range of advanced transportation services offered to customers by accelerating and increasing multimodal transportation and improving the quality of traditional services in trains and areas related to transportation.

One of the key objectives is to expand the operating domain of rapid-transit and high-speed transportation between the country’s largest metropolitan areas on the basis of modern efficient solutions.

Branches and companies of the Russian Railways Group

Transportation activities within the business unit are performed by:

• suburban transportation — 25 suburban passenger companies (Suburban Passenger Company) and Russian Railways (via High-Speed Transportation Directorate — branch of Russian Railways);
• the main long-haul carrier is Russian Railways subsidiary Federal Passenger Company.

Functions

• Supporting the transportation process
• Managing train traffic
• Managing traction resources
• Developing, maintaining and repairing infrastructure

The strategic priorities for the unit’s development are dictated by its status as a natural monopoly and include reducing infrastructure costs, broadening opportunities to create new transportation (freight and passenger) and logistics products (speed, reliability of infrastructure services, increasing carrying capacity), modernising the network and building profitable additional mainlines for growing transportation volumes.

The Railway Transportation and Infrastructure Business Unit is the largest unit within the Company and plays a key role in supporting the work of the Russian Railways Group by creating conditions for the effective work and development of the Group’s other business units.

Developing the business unit involves retaining its public services and government regulation as a natural monopoly.

Branches of Russian Railways

Activities within the business unit are performed by the following structural divisions of Russian Railways:

• Central Infrastructure Directorate;
• Traction Directorate;
• Central Traffic Control Directorate;
• Central Track Repair Directorate;
• Traction Rolling Stock Repair Directorate.

Function

• Providing services for the design, construction and supply of equipment required to maintain and operate infrastructure facilities

A strategic priority is to consolidate and expand the Group’s presence on the international railway engineering and transportation construction market and lay the groundwork to expand the Group’s other businesses on the markets where it operates as a contractor for the construction of infrastructure facilities.

Branches and enterprises of the Russian Railways Group

Activities within the business unit are performed by structural divisions and companies of Russian Railways, including:

• RZD International LLC;
• RasonKonTrans JV

Function

• Overseeing the social responsibility policy with respect to employees, society and the government

The development of the Social Unit is based on an objective assessment of the added value created from social support to employees and the effective use of the unit’s assets to provide market services. The Group’s social and public policy pursued outside of the workforce is an integral component of this unit.

Branches and companies of the Russian Railways Group

Activities within the business unit are performed by the following structural divisions of Russian Railways:

• Social Development Department;
• Personnel Management Department;
• Labour Organisation, Remuneration and Motivation Department;
• Russian Railways Health.