Transportation of the equipment for chemical industry into Turkey (railway station Mersin)

In January 2006 the enterprise Yugintertrans had arranged the transportation of the 8 carriages of equipment which was oversized cargo for Bulgarian and Turkish railways. The route of these cargoes envisaged the transportation of the Ukrainian carriages through the railway ferryboat Illichevs'k-Varna (Bulgaria). Then, after the replacement of wheel bogies of the Ukrainian carriages and installation of the wheel bogie for 1435 mm track, the carriages with the equipment went in transit through Bulgaria into Turkey. Railway terminal in Turkey which is capable to accept Ukrainian carriages is located in European part of Turkey, 100 km far from Istanbul. It allows to transship the cargo from the Ukrainian carriages onto the carriages of Turkish railway (TCDD). Then the cargo went 1200 km along the Turkish territory up to the railway station Mersin. This arrangement allowed to transport in direct railway communication from Ukraine to the destination place in Turkey. In accordance with rules adopted in (SMGS) "agreement on international railway communications" and (CIM) "international convention on cargo railway transportations" the transportation was agreed with relevant railways (Bulgaria, Turkey). The steps were developed and taken in order to co-ordinate the conditions and the technique of cargo loading onto the Turkish rolling stock and its transportation along the agreed route.

Photo. Oversized cargo of equipment at the Gerkezkoy railway station (Turkey).