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SCR PROVIDES SUBURBAN RAIL SERVICES TO 293,300 PASSENGERS IN ELEVEN MONTHS
YEREVAN, December 23. /ARKA/. The South Caucasus Railway (SCR) company
provided suburban rail services to a total of 293,000 passengers in
eleven months of this year, general director of the company Victor
Rebets told reporters on Monday.
The current commuter travels offered by the company are
Yerevan-Giumry-Yerevan, Yerevan-Ararat-Yerevan, Yerevan-Armavir
(Araks)-Yerevan, Hrazdan-Almast-Hrazdan and Yerevan-Yeraskh-Yerevan.
Apart from this, the SCR operates two international routes
- Yerevan-Tbilisi-Yerevan (from October to June) and
Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan (from June to October).
These routes had their passenger traffic increased by 210% from 27,500
people in 2008 to 55,500 in January-November 2014, Rebets said.
One of the achievements is the introduction of Orion automated
ticketing system that reduced the ticketing time from 10 to 2 minutes,
the general director said.
Online ticketing grows popular from one year to another, and online
ticket sales have tripled in 2014 compared to the year before,
Rebets said.
Yet, the company failed to maintain the 2013 sales level for suburban
services and hence started seeking options to optimize routes,
according to the general director.
Rebets said that, according to the concession agreement, the government
is obliged to make up for a part of the company's losses from suburban
services as the routes are defined by the ministry of transport. The
government debt has totaled to 818 million since 2008, of it 495
million was transferred to the company in December.
According to the budget, another 620 million drams will be paid
off in 2015. The government debt will be paid in full in two years,
according to Rebets.
The general director also said the debt is paid not from tax receipts,
but from the 2% concession fee the company transfers to the budget
every year.
Since the beginning of the concession, the SCR has paid a total of
1.7 billion drams in concession fees.
South Caucasus Railway, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, runs
Armenian Railway, which was handed over to the South Caucasus Railway
on February 13, 2008 for 30-year concession management with a right
to prolong the management term for other 10 years. ($1 - 456.17 drams).
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YEREVAN, December 23. /ARKA/. The South Caucasus Railway (SCR) company
provided suburban rail services to a total of 293,000 passengers in
eleven months of this year, general director of the company Victor
Rebets told reporters on Monday.
The current commuter travels offered by the company are
Yerevan-Giumry-Yerevan, Yerevan-Ararat-Yerevan, Yerevan-Armavir
(Araks)-Yerevan, Hrazdan-Almast-Hrazdan and Yerevan-Yeraskh-Yerevan.
Apart from this, the SCR operates two international routes
- Yerevan-Tbilisi-Yerevan (from October to June) and
Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan (from June to October).
These routes had their passenger traffic increased by 210% from 27,500
people in 2008 to 55,500 in January-November 2014, Rebets said.
One of the achievements is the introduction of Orion automated
ticketing system that reduced the ticketing time from 10 to 2 minutes,
the general director said.
Online ticketing grows popular from one year to another, and online
ticket sales have tripled in 2014 compared to the year before,
Rebets said.
Yet, the company failed to maintain the 2013 sales level for suburban
services and hence started seeking options to optimize routes,
according to the general director.
Rebets said that, according to the concession agreement, the government
is obliged to make up for a part of the company's losses from suburban
services as the routes are defined by the ministry of transport. The
government debt has totaled to 818 million since 2008, of it 495
million was transferred to the company in December.
According to the budget, another 620 million drams will be paid
off in 2015. The government debt will be paid in full in two years,
according to Rebets.
The general director also said the debt is paid not from tax receipts,
but from the 2% concession fee the company transfers to the budget
every year.
Since the beginning of the concession, the SCR has paid a total of
1.7 billion drams in concession fees.
South Caucasus Railway, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, runs
Armenian Railway, which was handed over to the South Caucasus Railway
on February 13, 2008 for 30-year concession management with a right
to prolong the management term for other 10 years. ($1 - 456.17 drams).
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