Snowfall and cold weather have paralyzed traffic in many European countries, reported on December 20 European mass-media.

By January 1, 2013 Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will unify tariffs for cargo railway transportation by types of communication, according to the draft agreement of the Customs Union.

As a result of collision of a passenger train with the transport carriage, in which there were concrete slabs, in the south of the Netherlands some tens people were hurt.

On September, 29 the joint-stock company «NK «Kazakhstan Temir Zholy» successfully issued eurobonds for the sum of 700 million US dollars for the period of 10 years, with the loan rate 6,375%.

The corresponding offer was stated by the chairman of Tax committee Daulet Ergozhin during the regular session of the expert group «Indirect taxes» in Moscow, underlined in information spread in the department.

The international rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) changed the rating forecasts of the national railway company «Kazakhstan Temir Zholy» (KTZh) and its affiliated branch «Kaztemirtrans» (the operator of carload park) from «stable» to «positive», said in the message of the rating agency.

In December of the previous year the government of the Russian Federation ratified investment programs of RR for three years: 270,5 billion rubles is for 2010, 285 billion rubles is for 2011 and 299,9 billion rubles is for 2012.

More than 500 members took part in Youth gathering this year that is twice more than in 2009, and it got the international status.

The photos and pictures reflect the idea of the competition: the work of these guys on the rail road.

The preparation of the structure companies for the work in winter season proceeds according to the schedule.

The head of OJSC «RR» opened his own weblog in «Live Journal».

This year Shanghai has got ahead of Singapore and got on top at container operations among the world ports due to rise in exports from China, investments to fresh capacities and tax advantages, Bloomberg agency informs.

In 2009 the net income of the company almost doubled and amounted 152,2 billion roubles. The gain at that decreased on 4%- down to 1,15 trillion roubles.

The passenger train 316 with 8 passengers who got injured because of the collision of the train and locomotive got its destination-Severodvinsk.

A follows from the operator report the shares of OJSC «TransContainer» will be sold at the price of 2.1129 thousand roubles each paper if the board of managers of RRW will not fix any other minimum share selling price.

The board of managers of OJSC «RRW» has appointed the former deputy head of Federal Tariff Service (FTS) Vitaliy Evdokimenko for the position of the general director of OJSC» the Second Freight Company» (SFC) on the final sitting, informed Andrey Sharanov the member of RRW board of managers, the managing director of «Troika-Dialogue» to the journalists. He has not been appointed yet, but the candidature is endorsed», he said.

According to preliminary data as the result of train collision 15 people died, 50 people got wounds of varyous severity of injury.

The first patterns of the platforms were issued in accordance with jointly developed performance specification, in July 2010 the platforms were given the certificate of the Russian Federation certification Register.

According to the evidence of the first six months result RF carriage-building field experiences rise. Particularly, gondola car production is approaching the level of pre crisis 2008 year.

«Independent transport company» became the winner of the first auction on RR gondola cars selling taking place on the 5th July 2010.

The most active players in tariff policy turned to be Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Ukraine.

On Thursday at the meeting the committee of directors of JSC «Russian Railways» (RR) approved documents on realization of the subsidiary in the sphere of freight service — JSC «Second freight company» (SFC), is said in the report of the carrier.

The company informed that in January-June, 2010 OJSC «RRW» got the net profit according to Russian accounting reports standards (RARD) at the amount of 58 milliard 485 million 421 thousand roubles against the loss at the amount of 13.7 milliard roubles in the similar period in 2009.

OJSC «RRW» will present an innovation project of construction of the modern railway test center in Russia to the President’s commission of modernization.

Within the program limits the group of companies «East» in association with group of companies «Baltiyski leasing» purchased 2425 new freight wagons at the amount of about 100 million dollars

The delegations of Kazakhstan and Chinese railways leaders, transport veterans, Almaty akimat representatives, invitees visited the station in order to celebrate the event.

National Company KTZh predicts the freight turnover growth by 5,5% in 2010.

The appropriate proposals were being discussed on the 5-6th of August in Almaty within scheduled meeting of Russian and Kazakhstan intergovernmental transport subcommittee.

Evgeniy Aman, the executive secretary of Ministry of Agriculture in the republic informed that even in case of deterioration with wheat harvest Kazakhstan is not purposed to limit the wheat export and ready to supply it to the Russian market.

During the call the Ambassador Hogland visited the workshops of the plant, watched the process of locomotive assembly.