‘South Caucasus Railway’ Disproves Raising Of Tariffs For Cargo Traf

‘SOUTH CAUCASUS RAILWAY’ DISPROVES RAISING OF TARIFFS FOR CARGO TRAFFIC BY 3,5 TIMES

ArmInfo
2010-09-01 13:15:00

ArmInfo. ‘South Caucasus Railway’ has disproved raising of tariffs for
cargo traffic by 3,5 times. To recall, earlier Agriculture Minister
Gerasim Alaverdyan said at the press-conference that crops price has
grown in Armenia because its transportation from Ayrum station to
Yerevan by railway has grown from $8 up to $30 for a ton of wheat.

As press-secretary of ‘SCRW’ Vahe Davtyan said, the company increased
the tariffs two times over the current year: first, in January
when taking inflation into account the tariffs were indexed by
9%; and second, on 1 July when the tariffs were increased by 2,4%
because of changing of the Swiss franc exchange rate. He also added
that at present the tariff for transportation of one ton of cargo at
Ayrum-Yerevan direction is 5 628 drams (a little more than $15). It was
5 505 drams before 1 July. ‘In 2009 ‘SCRW’ did not raise cargo traffic
tariffs so that to support Armenian economy during the most difficult
period of crisis, though it had 2 bln drams loss because of it. As for
raising tariffs this year, they were of the correcting nature and have
been coordinated with the tariff policy of the company published at
our corporative web site and available to everybody’, – Davtyan added.

From: A. Papazian