Rail Garant News

According to Deputy General Director for Operations and Technology Policy at Rail Garant Igor Tyagunov, the current situation in the railcar repair segment has become much more complicated, and in order to not lose market share, companies need to make some large-scale adjustments to their existing strategies.

- From July to August this year, the supply and demand ratio in the market changed dramatically: now supply exceeds demand, as a result of which depots are not loaded to full capacity, and some car repair depots have even shut down. This is due to two factors; the increase in the time between repairs and the emergence of new private depots. And it is now difficult to identify the factors that distinguish private depots from the depots of Russian Railways (RZD) car repair subsidiary companies. The level of service is practically the same.