Managing Environmental Impact

Regulatory and environmental aspects

Protecting the environment and minimising negative environmental impacts from the Company’s operations are among FPC’s highest priorities. In its environmental activities, FPC complies with Russian laws, the Environmental Strategies of Russian Railways, and the Company’s standard 1.16.001–2016 FPC Environmental Management System.

FPC involves investment, CAPEX, and operational resources and initiatives in pursuit of its environmental safety goals.

Overall, since the start of its operations, FPC has consistently reduced its environmental impacts (due to lower figures amid the COVID-19 epidemic, 2020 data were rebased to 2019):

• Production and consumption waste generation decreased from 105,000 tonnes to 101,000 tonnes
• Total used water discharge was down from 5.5 million m³ to 3.3 million m³
• Water use by structural units decreased from 9.4 million m³ to 6.4 million m³
• Air pollutant emissions were reduced from 8,000 to 5,000 tonnes

These results were achieved by optimising operations and processes across the Company’s branches, adopting new technology, and maintaining consistent supervision.

To reduce the anthropogenic impact of passenger services, FPC upgraded its rolling stock and facilities across its branches.

The Company keeps railway tracks from contamination while maintaining an adequate level of sanitation at rail infrastructure facilities by only acquiring carriages equipped with environmentally friendly toilet facilities. Also, existing carriages are retrofitted with environmentally friendly toilet facilities during overhauls.

In total, over 70 % of carriages in total fleet were equipped with environmentally friendly toilet facilities by year-end 2020. At the current rate of replacement and upgrade, over 90 % of rolling stock will be equipped with such facilities by 2025.

Air quality improvement

Purchasing carriages with a central power supply: 1,226 carriages.

Installation of high-voltage heating points at turnaround and originating stations for RUB 130.079 million (including high-voltage columns at the Adler and Murmansk stations Dacha Dolgorukova MCMaintenance centre. (SDSurvey and design.), Togliatti station (CIConstruction and installation. + CConnection to Russian Railways grids.), Nikolayevka PCDPassenger carriage depot. (Krasnoselsky Rail Yard), Kislovodsk station (SD), Severobaikalks station (SD); Yoshkar-Ola station (CI), Cheboksary-2 station (CI); construction of a high-voltage heating point at the Petrozavodsk station; installation of charging points at the Nikolayevka station, upgrade of a high-voltage heating point at Moskva-Tovarnaya station (CI), electric grids with charging points at the stabling and servicing yard for M carriages (CI + C) in Bryansk).

Boiler conversion from liquid fuel to gas for RUB 16.821 million (including Saint Petersburg-Moskovsky CYCarriage yard. (CI), Perm PCD (Phase 2, C).

Sustainable water use

In order to reduce discharge negatively affecting the environment and centralised water disposal systems, FPC implements annual programmes to upgrade its water treatment and carriage washing facilities (CWF), retrofitting them with water recirculation systems and on-site water treatment facilities:

• CWF upgrades including retrofits of water recirculation systems.
• Upgrades of water and sewer networks (construction of water supply network for the Samara Passenger Carriage Depot (construction, installation and network connection): RUB 27.952 million).

Production and consumption waste management

The total amount of waste generated by the Company’s activities was 81,000 tonnes in 2020, with 79,000 tonnes sent to contractors, including: 20,200 tonnes for reuse/recycling; 3,100 tonnes for neutralisation; 55,700 tonnes for landfilling.