Federal<br/>Passenger Company Annual Report
RU

2013 Operating Results

In 2013, for the first time since the Company had been established, it had to deal with a decline in passenger numbers. The total number of passenger-kilometres in 2013 was 107.0 billion, down 6.1% on the 2012 figure.

To improve the financial performance, the Company reduced the number of short trains and low occupancy trains (except for socially important ones).

To improve the quality of services provided to passengers, extend the choice of seats, implement a loyalty programme and a dynamic pricing program, the Company adopted a policy according to which trains are made up a fixed number of cars, with no cars being coupled or uncoupled en route. This approach helped improve earnings per passenger seat despite a decline in train occupancy to 71.5 %, down 2.4% on the previous year’s level.

Passenger turnover in trains made up in CIS and Baltic countries totalled 10.1 billion passenger-kilometres or 94.2% of the previous year’s level.

In order to attract additional passengers, a range of measures was taken to satisfy the demand to the maximum extent possible, which made it possible to limit the drop in the number of kilometres travelled by the cars to 2.8% on the 2012 figure (it was 3.5 billion car-kilometres).

A passenger train of JSC FPC had 13.3 cars on average in the reporting period.


Indicators 2012 2013 Growth on 2012, %
Passenger turnover, billion passenger-kilometres 114.0 107.0 —6.1
— in trains made up by JSC FPC 103.3 96.9 —6.2
deregulated segment 35.4 33.4 —5.9
regulated segment 67.9 63.6 —6.4
— in trains made up in CIS and Baltic countries 10.7 10.1 —5.8
Passengers carried, million passengers 114.2 108.6 —4.9
deregulated segment 43.3 41.9 —3.1
regulated segment 70.9 66.7 —6.0
Average number of cars in a train, cars 13.4 13.3 —0.7
Seat usage 73.9% 71.5% —2.4 p. p.
JSC FPC’s share in the number of passengers carried by comparable transport inside Russia (excluding trains made up in CIS and Baltic countries) 55.4% 52.2% —3.2 п. п.
Inventory fleet (cars) 23,378 22,294 —4.6
Fleet in service (cars) 20,205 19,308 —4.4
Labour productivity, RUB thousand 1,451 1,409 —2.9

In 2013, year-round express trains accounted for the greatest share of passenger turnover among all trains made up by JSC FPC, carrying 59% of all passengers; the share of express trains increased by 4.3%.

The share of passengers travelling in second-class sleepers cars in 2013 increased by 0.6 percentage points, totalling 71.8%; the share of passengers choosing sleepers decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 26.4%; 0.8% of passengers were carried in standard cars, which matches the 2012 figure; popularity of first-class cars grew by 0.2 percentage points to 1.1%.

The most popular routes (with more than 0.8 million passengers per year) were from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Saratov, Voronezh, Ruzaevka, Bryansk, Samara, Orel and Kursk.

Factors affecting passenger turnover

Factors Impact by segments
deregulated segment regulated segment
Cancellation of unprofitable trains —1.7% —0.8%
Indexation of passenger service rates —2.5% —2.5%
Macroeconomic situation —2.7% —3.9%
Promotions 1.0%
Increase in the number of car dispatches in peak periods —  0.8%
TOTAL —5.9% —6.4%

JSC FPC’s passenger numbers by train type, %

JSC FPC’s passengers’ turnover by carriage type, %