Private operator for railway transport:

Unifertrans

UNICOMTRANZIT – a society disposing of a strong and self-sufficient network dedicated to services regarding intern and international railway transportation for general goods and merchandise - has managed in just five years since its establishment to create its own railway transport operator. The society is SC UNIFERTRANS SA, a firm that, with its own means executes important railway transports. After obtaining a license from the Romanian Railway Authority (AFER) and the circulation certificates for various towing sections they drew a contract with CFR SA obtaining the use of the existing infrastructure. The contract will allow trains, others than those belonging to SNTMF CFR – Merchandise the use of the CFR network. Complete sets (closed trains) belonging to UNIFERTRANS will eventually go beyond Romanian frontiers following transportation contracts with its partners. We have to mention since the beginning that UNIFERTRANS is organized in the spirit of Romanian legislation and respects all international requirements for railway transportation with a special view to strictly uphold the ISO 9002 – 9004 quality prescriptions. The management is formed of experienced individuals who know how to charm the clients through professionalism, correctitude and behavior and to organize operations convergent to rail transportation so that time and costs will become attractive to clients and will provide safe conditions for loading\unloading the merchandise by using the latest technologies. As we stated at the beginning of the presentation, the private operator for railway transportation, SC UNIFERTRANS SA was born as an absolute necessity to finalize the UNICOMTRANZIT activity in superior conditions. UNICOMTRANZIT now has business relations with partners in over nine countries and their client portfolio includes 39 Romanian and foreign firms. UNICOMTRANZIT IS AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE merchandise Transport Firms International Federation (FIATA) and a member of the Romanian Transport Society Union (USER). To insure the success of their activity, the firm effectively cooperates with railway administrations and transport firms in most European countries, especially in Russia, Ukraine, The Republic of Moldova, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Through their correspondents, the company offers transport services on all European railways within the best safety and operability conditions. The services offer for railway transportation includes pre-calculations for transportation fees, transport at world-competitive prices, merchandise supervision during transport and other services related to railway transportation. The client is entitled to consultancy with regard to the fees practiced by the transporting company and the status of the merchandise on the way. The client has the possibility to receive, upon request, real time information regarding the manner in which the transport is conducted as well as information about the location of the merchandise on the routes established through the contract. To help the clients, the firm offers aside from the railway transport of petroleum derivatives the use of auto-cisterns of great capacity and possibilities for land transport both intern and international, guaranteeing the safety and continuity of the transport. As part of the business relations between the transport operator, UNIFERTRANS and the other companies of the conglomerate, petroleum derivatives transport is one of their major specialties. They offer the possibility of transfer between ships and deposits, ships and rail wagons for both large and narrow railways and from the wagons to ships or deposits. They also offer transfer between wagons and ships along with all included operations for transit, export or import.

Engineer Dan Dragos Aldea