The government finally approved the methodology for allocating scarce capacity of BAM and Transsib between different types of goods. To the great relief of the market, of technique left the postulate that the goods which were not included in the quota, will be directed to alternative routes as a pay actually traveled, and not the shortest distance. The rest of the questions to the methodology remained: market participants continue to believe it is a controversial allocation of “other goods”, where, in particular, ore, in the least priority category. There are also objections from those shippers of Kuzbass, in particular, of the independent coal mines that do not carry coal to Europe for lack of there own ports, and therefore will receive a smaller quota to the East.Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin 22 may signed amendments to rules of non-discriminatory access to rail transport infrastructure that contains the methodology for the allocation of limited capacity of BAM and Transsib between different groups of goods and, separately, the coal quota Kuzbass — between companies in the region. The document may 27, was published on the official portal of legal information.As previously reported by “Kommersant”, the document enters on the Eastern polygon in a specific order missing goods.Coal loads of Kuzbass — and this year, by agreement with Russian Railways to the East must drive 53 million tons of coal for export and 3.55 million tonnes in the domestic market — go following order. Half of the quota is allocated between the companies in the normal way, adjusted to the capacity of the ports, and the second is divided in proportion to the shipments for export in the less popular Northern, North-Western and southern directions or domestic supply in previous periods.The final wording left one of the most controversial provisions that goods, not included in the limit, can be directed to other routes with the payment based on the actual distance traveled. Market participants and the Federal Antimonopoly service had previously objected to the application of this principle, saying that this greatly increases the cost of transportation, and Charter of the railway transport requires to pay the freight by the shortest distance, including in the case of increasing the distance that cargoes are transported, for reasons beyond the control of the infrastructure owner and carrier (see “Kommersant” on 14 may). However, the objections of the market and not withdrawn as regards the handling of goods in General and to the coal part. “Coal priority falls into the fifth category, and iron ore — in the last, sixth,— says the source “b” among metallurgists.— That is, the priority of coal is still higher than the ore.” Another source “b” among the shipper agrees that the vagueness of the term “other transportation goods” remains one of the main p��problems document. As for the coal part, according to him, while she was intra-industry technical document, everything was in order. But, being enshrined in regulation with no expiry, it enters not quite fair order which, on the one hand, highlights the Kuznetsk coal among the total export volume, on the other hand, although the quota can vary, the dependence of the supply in one direction from the other fixed formula and would not change with the expansion of capacity East of the landfill or other large changes.”With regard to medium-sized coal companies of Kuzbass, the packages in the Western ports they have not appeared, does not open neither Ukraine nor the Baltic ports,— said one of them. There is a slim chance that, according to the 11th paragraph of the application, the energy Ministry will pay attention to whether the company has the ability to drive to the West.” Otherwise, in his view, the vertically integrated company will impose independent coal mine, his sales policy or to compel entry into the holdings. The transfer of quotas to companies outside the group of persons, the prohibited technique, he explains, but nothing prevents to absorb independent or to establish relations of control in exchange for the use of quota on their own terms.Natalia Skorlygina, Eugene Zainullin
