Ukrainian Railways has increased the track access charges for rail freight operations, and the country’s sector reacts. Compared to passenger rail, the disproportionate price increase is estimated to impact the country’s modal shift and prices...Read more
Ukraine finds itself amidst a boom of rail freight-related developments. The country is a well-known transit hub for Eurasian traffic, and its potential has been discussed before. However, its railway market has a lot to...Read more
Ukrainian Railways has completed the reconstruction of the track between Vilcha and Yaniv stations, which connects the Chernobyl exclusion zone with the main railway network. It connects to a storage facility of spent nuclear fuel...Read more
The Zamość terminal near the Polish-Ukrainian border is to be expanded to respond to the growing number of Europe-China trains passing through this border. The expansion will take place in the third quarter of this...Read more
The steel manufacturing company ArcelorMittal plans to add 1,200 new wagons to its Ukrainian fleet during 2021-2022. This number means that the company will increase its owned fleet by 1,5 times. The company’s goal is...Read more
The new railway line of the East-West Gate in Hungary has been handed over. The line connects the intermodal terminal on the border of Hungary and Ukraine with the standard gauge network of Europe. It...Read more
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) will receive 130 heavy electric locomotives by Alstom as part of a fleet renewal project. The French and Ukrainian governments signed an intergovernmental agreement to finance the hundreds of million purchase. Both...Read more
Ukrainian Railways will start electrifying and modernising the Kovel-Izov-Derzhkordon route between Ukraine and Poland during the following months. Construction works will take place on several sites. The most significant concern the reconstruction of railway tracks...Read more
A new intermodal terminal has opened on the border between Poland and Ukraine. It is called Mostyska Container Terminal, located in Mostyska village (Lviv region, Ukraine). It is operated by Global Ocean Link (GOL), which...Read more
Maersk introduced another intermodal service across the Trans-Siberian route connecting the Russian Far East with the Black Sea. Specifically, the new service called AE77 links the VSC Terminal in Vostochny with the NUTEP Terminal at...Read more
The developer of the East-West Gate (EWG) intermodal terminal, being built in Hungary and the Kazakh EuroTransit Group, which operates several terminals on the Kazakh-Chinese border, will cooperate in providing a fast and reliable transport...Read more
Lithuania and Ukraine have signed a Memorandum of Intent to develop their transport and logistics sectors together. The agreement concerns all modes of transport. However, rail seems to be the primary driver of their cooperation....Read more
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has become a regular freight carrier on the Ukrainian market with three weekly connections between the Port of Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. MSC replied with three roundtrips for 20-foot and...Read more
PCC Intermodal plans to level up its rail connection between Poland and Ukraine to three times per week this year. It announced these plans while celebrating the first anniversary of the service, which connects several...Read more
A new direct service has been launched between the port of Gdansk and Ukraine. Via the border hub in Mostyska, cargo is distributed to several locations in Ukraine, including the port of Odessa. The train...Read more
Camco Technologies has been selected as the automation partner for the East-West Gate Terminal on the border of Hungary and Ukraine. Once complete, the intermodal terminal will have gate automation, camera systems for vehicles and...Read more
Two months after the initial proposal for an intermodal corridor extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic, the situation looks more concrete than a vague suggestion. The possibilities concerning the corridor’s establishment are favourable...Read more
Container train traffic in Ukraine experienced a growth of 41 per cent in 2020. This number equals the transportation of 230,000 TEU’s by train. Simultaneously, the country saw the transportation of 425,000 TEU’s through its...Read more
