Economy
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Ulaanbaatar Railway JSC was awarded ‘Golden Chariot’ international transport award in category Excellence in Railway Transport. The award ceremony was organized on September 24 during TRAKO 2019 – 13th International Railway Fair in Gdansk city of Poland. At the ceremony, the Golden Chariot award, diploma and an international certificate of honorary cooperation were handed over to the delegate of the Ulaanbaatar Railway. This year, 14 organizations from around the world were awarded with the Golden Chariot award, including public transportation organizations, private companies, universities and academic research centers. The Golden Chariot award, with its organizing team headquartered in Vienna, Austria, selects the best players in the sector of transportation and ecology and more than 900 companies and professionals from 82 countries have become winner of the Award in various categories so far. The largest international transport associations and unions, such as International Road Transport Union, BRICS-PED, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, Organization for Cooperation of Railways and others have granted their support for the Award. The Mongolian-Russian joint venture Ulaanbaatar Railway has made a historic achievement of transportation of 25.7 million tons of freight this year and proved to be a main railway corridor connecting Asia and Europe by having a considerable amount of increase in the freight forwarding through Mongolia. https://en.montsame.mn/en/read/201854
