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🇷🇺 Russian Railways is struggling by with massive freight delays and a lack of mechanics

Russian Railways has stopped sending containers to one of the main container terminals in the Moscow region, Selyatino , for 10 days, according to company employees working with this terminal.

The restriction is in effect from November 12 to 21 and is due to the fact that the terminal is overcrowded and the Moscow Railway is overloaded , according to Russian Railways documents.

The situation is similar in another large terminal – Elektrougli . Trains with containers cannot get there either – they have been standing for more than 10 days approximately 1000 kilometers from the capital, between Perm and Kirov.

Delivery delays are huge – a month is considered a good time, and two months are no longer uncommon – key stations on the import route from the Far East to Central Russia are clogged with abandoned trains, from which the locomotive has been uncoupled and left on sidings for an indefinite period, shippers say.

In most cases, Russian Railways explains the need to leave a train without service by a shortage of rolling stock and locomotive crews, employees of transport companies explain. The company is short 2.5k mechanics said Deputy General Director of Russian Railways Dmitry Shakhanov.

The problem is so serious that in early November, the heads of several major railway operators complained about Russian Railways to presidential adviser Igor Levitin . They write that their clients-shippers are increasingly faced with a lack of wagons for loading.

According to their estimates, already in mid-October, 35-40% of cargo intended for shipment to the central part of the country was not loaded on the West Siberian Railway.

📝IntelSchizo: Imagine what would happen if trains in the United States didn't deliver Freight to the 10 largest cities for 2 weeks. That's literally what's happening in Russia right now.

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