A few days after announcing the intention to establish a European freight branch for Ukrainian Railways, the company’s CEO, Oleksandr Kamyshin, resigned. In his own words, he did so to focus on the enterprise of...Read more
At the dawn of 24 February 2022, the first war sirens went off in Kyiv, accompanied by the first bombing of the city. A couple of hours later, Ukrainian Railways announced they had entered an...Read more
Egle Sime, CEO of LTG Cargo, was awarded the Women in Rail Trailblazer Award at the 16th edition of the European Railway Awards, held in Brussels on 31 January. This was the first time that...Read more
The Ukrainian railways sector continues to develop, amidst an ongoing military conflict with Russia, and the associated massive damage to the country’s railways infrastructure. As Yulia Klimenko, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport and...Read more
Rates for transporting grain via rail with Ukrainian Railways (UZ) railcars in and through Ukraine are currently decreasing. According to Valery Tkachev, deputy director of the Department of Commercial Work of the Ukrainian Academy of...Read more
Ukrainian Railways inaugurated the newly restored Rakhiv-Berlebash cross-border line connecting Ukraine with Romania. The inauguration took place on Tuesday, 17 January, when Orest Klympush, the first Minister of Transport of Ukraine between 1992 and 1994,...Read more
Ukrainian Railways transported more than 150 million tons of cargo last year, signalling a drop of 52,1 per cent compared to 2021. Despite the significant decrease, the company that kept operating at full steam amidst...Read more
The Ukrainian state railway Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) will receive 63 generators from Deutsche Bahn in the next few days to generate electricity. The devices are a donation from the German railway company, and were loaded in...Read more
This Saturday, the first train from Kyiv arrived in Kherson in Ukraine since the city was liberated from Russian forces. On board were passengers, politicians as well as Ukrainian Post parcels and letters that had...Read more
The Global Ukraine Rail Task Force is asking for a new Marshall Plan for the Ukrainian rail freight sector. The plan, as the name suggests, would be similar to the Marshall Plan, implemented by the...Read more
Ukrzaliznytsia will reassess and probably change its rail freight tariff system by simplifying it significantly. The goal is to “completely abandon the current tariffs scheme for cargo transportation and make tariffs fair for all market...Read more
Deutsche Bahn and Ukrainian Railways signed an MoU which ensures that the German company will support their Ukrainian counterparts in post-war restoration. DB will assist UZ materially by providing needed equipment and on an advisory...Read more
The Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal discussed the possibility that Ukraine could open the quotas for coal export to Poland and mobilise some million tons of the fuel, probably by rail. A few days ago,...Read more
Investing in future projects that include Ukraine is not the only solution, as the industry and policymakers should ensure resolving current and burning issues. At the same time, the current situation in the supply chain...Read more
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will grant an additional 98,8 million euros to the Ukrainian Railways in an attempt to resolve urgent liquidity issues and ensure the seamless continuation of cargo and passenger...Read more
The grain export corridor set up by the EU and European rail freight companies, combined with the unlocking of Ukrainian ports to transport grain by sea, seem to have a positive effect. Ukrainian Railways reported...Read more
LTG Cargo, the freight subsidiary of Lithuanian Railways, commenced a new project for the rail transport of oil to Ukraine. Twelve trains carrying around 12,000 tonnes of petroleum have already departed, while the company plans...Read more
A train operated by the Ukrainian Railways derailed in the Iasi prefecture in Romania. The train had just unloaded grain at the Constanta port and was on its way back to Ukraine. The incident took...Read more
Ukraine’s transhipment capacity is insufficient to handle the agricultural cargo volumes pending on the Western Ukrainian border. The country’s infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov underlined that time is pressuring and stressed that EU investments in Ukraine...Read more
Until last week, more than 10,000 tonnes in humanitarian aid was brought into Ukraine by over 1,600 cargo wagons. Several thousand tonnes were transported on passenger trains. Railway undertakings from all across Europe, together with...Read more
Ukrainian Railways are calling private companies to invest and build rail freight terminals in the country’s western territories. The company offers the railway infrastructure to boost rail freight transport to and from the west and...Read more
