In the conditions of growth of the market of transport services in the sphere of container transportation an important stage in the development of rail container transportation is the formation of consolidated container companies. Consolidated container companies should have a network of information logistics centers and a network of container terminals for the consolidation of containers and the implementation of a linear inter-terminal service. The study of logistics chains based on the decomposition of processes for the formation of a container company led to a graphical representation of the problem. With the help of a formal model for constructing logistics chains to investigate the production activities of a container company, a functional model was created.