Despite crisis, SCR met its targets

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.