Approximately till 2003 years, railway freight forwarding companies provided only one railway transport service - mediation between customer and the Railways (carriers) of the various countries. Moreover, rail transport has been associated with forwarding of large volumes and / or large gauge cargoes such as charcoal, round wood, rubble, oil, etc.
 

At the time trade customers of CIS countries transporting their goods from Western Europe due to internal competition started looking for ways to reduce costs for trade goods transportation and shorten delivery times. Usually transport costs is the significant part of the cost of goods. Thus, purchasers began to experiment by combining different freight transport modes. Railway transport in Western Europe, as compared with the speediest land transport - cars are not very popular, but it is much more attractive in CIS countries, because transportation service costs less forwarding over long distances. Therefore, it is clear that economically-based solution is to organize complex (multimodal) transportation: forwarding cargo by road transport to the consolidation points in Western Europe / Baltic countries near the CIS countries' border, where is concentrated infrastructure with gauge width of 1520 mm, and then - by rail.

Railana professionals were among the first who began to organize such movements. Currently, complex transportation are increasingly popular because during their time is clearly saving time and reducing transportation costs.

It is noted that customers, who try to organize complex forwarding themselves, assume all coordination burden the entire trucking, stevedoring companies, insurance agencies, surveyors, railways and railways structural units. Such a large number of supplier in the transport process is very inconvenient to the customer, because the whole process of organization and supervision requires considerable time costs, which adversely affects the productivity and business. Railana have already for several years co-operated with all sides involved in rail logistics schemes, so we can promptly and efficiently select and adapt these services work, assessment of all the circumstances of transportation.

Railana works only with reliable partners from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belorussia, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and offers organization of the all stages of the process of complex transportation; coordination and execution, as well as assume responsibility for these works. Therefore, is much easier for the client to control the transport process.

Railana organizes the complex transportation services related with rail (in any order):

1. Road transport + terminal + railway transport,

2. Sea transport + terminal + railway transport,

3. Sea transport + terminal + road transport + terminal + railway transport.