До конца января 2024 года компания Rail Cargo Group (RCG) полностью посвятит себя перевозке сахарной свёклы для сельскохозяйственной программы компании AGRANA по переработке сахара. AGRANA уже начала переработку сахарной свёклы на своих заводах в Тульне и Леопольдсдорфе (Нижняя Австрия). Ежегодная кампания требует быстрого и тщательного планирования, координации локомотивов, вагонов и персонала для обеспечения готовности в нужном месте в нужное время в сжатые сроки.
Aligning with a climate-friendly and sustainable strategy, AGRANA once again relies on RCG’s extensive experience in the ongoing sugar beet campaign. Across nearly 36 collection points in Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland, Styria, and Carinthia, sugar beets are gathered and loaded onto trains. Up to 13 trains, either in a single wagonload or in a unit train, transport loads of up to 1,400 net tonnes daily to the refineries. This accounts for approximately 2.6 million tonnes of conventional sugar beet and 40,000 tonnes of organic sugar beet, cultivated on over 36,000 hectares of farmland. RCG plays a significant role in more than half of these sugar beet transports, covering an estimated 365,000 train kilometers by the end of January – a distance equivalent to circling the equator almost ten times.
RCG’s Hungarian subsidiary has also joined in the transportation of sugar beets, handling four trains daily until the end of January 2024. Over the campaign, they are expected to cover more than 150,000 kilometers, transporting between 450,000 to 470,000 tonnes from approximately 40 shipping points to the Magyar Cukor Zrt sugar refinery in the coming months.
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