What are Russian authorities, OAO RZD and CCTT doing to improve the quality of transportation in Russian areas?
Nowadays, the problems of rolling stock shortage are being solved, OAO TransContainer, ZAO Russkaya Troyka and other large forwarding companies are enlarging their wagon and container parks. In 2006, OAO RZD and the RF Federal Customs Service signed a Memorandum of Understanding. It envisages organisation of regular joint conferences and consultations to solve current problems, joint development and realisation of technological schemes and technical terms for cooperation between OAO RZD and the Federal Customs Service for international railway freight transportation. It also envisages implementation of e-document information systems to inform customs bodies in advance about the goods and transport facilities. The RF Federal Customs Service plans to optimise the carrying of goods and transport facilities via state borders by implementing a new system of customs registration and control in the framework of the systems modernisation to 2010. The mode of operation of adjoining Russian and
