Russkaya Troyka: only facts

22.09.04 The Russian Railways’ Management Board approved the Russkaya Troyka project.

08.10.04 The Russian Railways’ Board of Directors resolved to establish Russkaya Troyka as a private limited company.

09.11.04 Russkaya Troyka completed the procedure of its registrationis registered with the tax authorities, and commenced freight carriage operations.

28.03.05 As a start of freight operations, the Company sent its first trainload of Hyundai car components in 143 TEUs on 53 flatcars from Nakhodka to Taganrog.

07.04.05 The first container train arrives in Taganrog from Nakhodka. The travel time was 10 days and 13 hours. The door-to-door delivery time from South Korea to Taganrog was 18 days.

27.04.05 The Company’s total shipments exceeded 1,000 TEUs.

14.09.05 The Company started to activate its own rolling stock. First ten 80-foot flatcars of Model 13-1281 were put into operation.

24.10.05 The number of the Company-owned long-wheelbase flatcars increased to 100.

20.01.06 The Company inaugurated a line service between Nakhodka and Martsevo, Taganrog.

23.01.05 In nine months of operations in 2005, the Company carried 14,583 TEUs. It now has 242 flatcars in its fleet.

30.01.06 The meeting of the Company’s shareholders approved a loan of $42 million intended for increasing the Company’s fleet of flatcars.

28.03.06 As of this date after a year in the freight business the Company had a fleet of 505 flatcars, while the annual volume of shipments increased to 21,018 TEUs.

24.04.06 The Company started a new line service between Nakhodka and Moscow, and l began to send container trains from Nakhodka every week.

17.10.06 Russkaya Troyka joined the International Association "Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation" (CCTT).

01.11.06 The Company started pre- sale of slots on trains operated on the line between Nakhodka and Moscow.

09.11.06 As of this date, two years after incorporation, the Company had the fleet of 942 flatcars. Over the period, it dispatched 110 container trains from Nakhodka with a total of 54,179 TEUs.

17-27.11.06 Russkaya Troyka took part in a demonstration delivery run under the surveillance of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) and the Railroad Cooperation Organization (RCO). The Company’s container train covered 10,010 kilometers from Nakhodka to Taganrog in 11 days 4 hours 18 minutes.

22.01.07 The Company reported it had carried 51,230 TEUs in 2006, and 65,700 TEUs since the start of its freight service, and that by that time it had 942 flatcars.

23.01.07 Russkaya Troyka initiated a line service between Nakhodka and Vozhoi, Izhevsk, to deliver car components to the South Korean KIA Motors Corporation’s car factory, IzhAvto, at Izhevsk, Russia’s Udmurtian Republic.

25.01.07 The 100th container train set out from Nakhodka toward Taganrog, inaugurating a new line service.

26.01.07 The extraordinary general meeting of the Company’s shareholders resolved to double its authorized capital by offering additional stock, and to use the funds raised from the offering to build a specialized intermodal container transfer facility (ICTF) in the Russian part of the Far East.

23.03.07 Russkaya Troyka launched a project to build an ICTF in the Far East, and set up a Far Eastern office to oversee ICTF construction in the seaport of Vladivostok.

28.03.07 Two years of operations. The volume of shipments beat 100,000 TEU and amounted 102,120 TEU.

18.04.07 Russkaya Troyka teamed up with TransTeleCom Company to introduce a new information service, E-Freight.

29.06.07 At year-end of 2006 the net profit totaled RUR 96.7 million, with the return on investment of 19.3%. The annual general meeting decided to invest the net profit in company’s development.

18.10.07 A Memorandum of understanding was signed between Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Japan, Russian Railroads, and Russkaya Troyka. Russkaya Troyka and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., signed an agreement on launching an intermodal service to carry containerized freight of Japanese cargo owners.

15.02.08 Swiss operator Hupac and Russkaya Troyka started their joint container service on the route between he railway terminal in the town of Slawkow (Poland) and the Moscow railway terminal of the Vostoktrans company.

26.06.08 Russkaya Troyka held the annual shareholders meeting on June 23, 2008 in Moscow and approved the decision to pay dividends for 2007 totaling RUR 2,228 per share. The net profit of Russkaya Troyka totaled RUR 210.34 million in 2007, cargo traffic – 86 632 TEU including 69.3% delivered by container trains.

09.12.08 The company’s quality management system was certified according to ISO 9001:2000 standards. Audit and certification of the Quality Management System was certified by Russian Register – an independent agency for certification, a member of Inept, internationally accredited, recognized by the International Accreditation Forum.

14.01.09 Russkaya Troyka became an operator of "FESCO Moscow Shuttle" service. By that time the Container service was in operation on the route Vladivostok– export terminal (VCT) – Silikatnaya (Moscow), a station of the Moscow rail junction.

01.07.09 The volume of shipments in 2008 amounted to 68,939 TEU. The rolling stock fleet totalled 1,424 container platforms. Net profit - RUR 35.5 Million.

11.09.09 Through the disengaged military property auction organized by the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense the Company bought a plot of land in the port Vladivostok. The plot was acquired for RUR 103 Million, the starting auction price amounted RUR. 95, 762, 900. The plot area was 3.5 hectare. This land was to be used by the company for construction of a container terminal.

16.12.10 Nikolay A. Rezvov is appointed by the general director of the Russkaya Troyka JSC.