DESPITE CRISIS, SCR MET ITS TARGETS
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.12.2009 16:28 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Despite the crisis and reduced GDP volumes,
South Caucasian Railways (SCR) CJSC managed to meet its targets, the
company’s General Director Shekvet Shaydulin finds. SCR’s long-term
mission consists in becoming an all-national transportation company
dynamically enhancing its effectiveness and quality of services
rendered, he told Thursday a resulting news conference in Yerevan.
At that, he noted that this is the first time when work productivity
on Armenian railroad increased by 9%".
However, carriage circulation, according to SCR General Director,
was reduced by 24 hours. "Last year we worked 6.9. days, while this
year’s plan envisages 6 days, which means operating 200 carriages
less. The average daily productivity of locomotives and carriages
exceeds last year’s indexes by 12% and 18% respectively. "
Passenger circulation rate has also increased, especially in summer
when the company carried a total number of 16 500 passengers, while
operating 15 carriages. "We plan to redouble passenger transportation
rate and further enhance the quality of our services," Shaydulin added.