The container operators` work on the West Siberian Railway

The transportation of goods in containers is considered one of the progressive directions in improving the transportation process. Container operators are shipping companies, thanks to which the delivery of commercial products is carried out. 

The paper discusses the main directions of shipping goods in containers carried out by container operators from the West Siberian Railway. The share of container operators in shipments made to the regions of Russia in the context of the country's railways and in international traffic, that is, across the world, is shown.

Based on the territorial (geographical) and volumetric (quantitative) indicators of shipments, the conclusion is made about the closeness of commodity and transport links of the Russian Railways with the railways of the network and with the countries of the world. 

The purpose of the study was to analyze the work of container operators organizing the transportation of goods for domestic and export purposes, the species diversity of goods shipped in containers and the location of consignees. This made it possible to identify and identify the participation of the railway in the domestic and foreign commodity and transport markets.

The paper presents a methodology for accounting and analyzing shipments made by container operators, tested at the landfill of the West Siberian Railway.