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Ferrosur Roca
Argentine freight transport company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Argentine rail company. For the Mexican rail company, see Ferrosur.
Ferrosur Roca S.A. (FR) is a private company which operates freight services over part of the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge that belongs to General Roca Railway.
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Company type | S.A. |
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Industry | Transport |
Founded | 1993; 31 years ago (1993) in Argentina |
Headquarters | Argentina |
Area served | Buenos Aires Río Negro Neuquén |
Production output | 5,258,301 tonnes carried (2014)[1] |
Services | Rail freight transport |
Parent | Mover Participações[2][3] |
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Some of the products transported by Ferrosur Roca include salt, clincker, plaster, cement, lime, cereals, fertilizers, coking coal, iron scrap, petroleum and fuel oil, among other items. The company transported a total of 5,258,301 tonnes of freight in 2014.[1]
The company, property of Mover Participações (formerly, Camargo Correa),[3][4][2] is 80% owned by the Cofesur group, 16% state-owned, and 4% owned by employees of the company through Personal de Ferrosur S.A.