The Freight One (Russian: Первая грузовая компания) is the largest privately owned high-tech company rendering freight logistics services in Russia and abroad.[4] The company was the part of Fletcher Group Holdings Limited controlled by Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin. In 2023, the company was sold to a new owner, JSC Aurora Invest.[5] Freight One owns over 100,000 units of rolling stock of different types and shipped over 160 million tons of freight in 2021, reclaiming its status as leader in terms of volume of traffic and cargo turnover in Russia.[6]

Freight One
Company typePrivate
IndustryFreight logistics
Founded2010
Headquarters,
Russia
Area served
Freight logistics
Key people
1. Public Joint Stock Company Freight One

CEO — Mr Ruslan Babaev

Subsidiaries:

2. Joint Stock Company “Railcar Repairs Gryazi” CEO — Mr Alexey Koniaev

3. Limited Liability Company “Railcar Repairs Zarinsk” CEO — Mr Sergey Klimenko

4. Joint Stock Company “SteelTrans” CEO — Mr Alexey Gorbunov

5. Freight One Central Asia Limited Liability Partnership

CEO — Mr Farid Leonov
Revenue98 bln RUB[1] (2017)
21,5 bln RUB[2] (2020)
26,2 bln RUB[2] (2020)
Total assets154,9 bln RUB[2] (2020)
Total equity108,6 bln RUB[2] (2020)
OwnerAurora Invest
Number of employees
3446[3] (2021)
ParentAurora Invest
Websitepgk.ru

In 2021 the company stated that it will invest around $200 million into its rolling stock, including buying of its own containers and building container terminals.[7]

Freight One owns car repair factories situated in different regions of Russian Federation. One of these factories - Joint Stock Company “Railcar Repairs Gryazi” specializes in current and full repair of rail cars, including low sided cars, platforms, pellet carriers and cement lorries. Industrial capacity of this factory is around 7.8 units annually.[8] Another car repair factory Limited Liability Company “Railcar Repairs Zarinsk” is scheduled for opening in 2022.[9]

Carriages edit

References edit

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20181028193225/https://raexpert.ru/rankingtable/top_companies/2018/main
  2. ^ a b c d https://pgkweb.ru/upload/iblock/f51/konsolidirovannaya-finansovaya-otchetnost-za-2020-god-_-auditorskoe-zaklyuchenie.pdf
  3. ^ https://expert.ru/expert400/2022/
  4. ^ "Wagons have they stop signal lit". Retrieved 2010-09-10.
  5. ^ "У "Первой грузовой компании" сменился владелец". RBC (in Russian). 2023-11-02.
  6. ^ "Infoline Rail Russia Top" (PDF). 2010-09-10. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  7. ^ ""Мы должны создать отдельный бизнес в контейнерных перевозках"". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  8. ^ "VRP Gryazi website".
  9. ^ "ПГК вложит 350 млн рублей в создание вагоноремонтного комплекса в Алтайском крае". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2022-02-26.

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