Metinvest to develop logistics center in Katowice, Poland
Metinvest Group is planning to increase the capacity of its logistics center in Katowice, Poland, to transport steel products.
Railway transportation
New intermodal service to connect Greece and North Macedonia
Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) is launching a new rail service for container trains between the port of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the city of Skopje (North Macedonia). Trains will run on this route once a week (on Wednesdays).
CZ LOKO delivers two more EffiShunter 1000M locomotives to ZSSK Cargo
At the end of August, the Slovak operator ZSSK Cargo received two more shunting locomotives of the EffiShunter 1000M series manufactured by CZ LOKO. The carrier now has four of these locomotives in its fleet, with a total order volume of 20 units.
Handling at Ukraine – Romania and Ukraine – Moldova border crossings*
As many as 101 wagons were transferred daily through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing as of September 5 (down 45 wagon compared with the previous week).
ZSSK Cargo (Slovakia): conventional restrictions of cargo transportation
From September 4 to September 12, due to construction works, ČD Cargo will suspend transportation of all cargoes from Slovakia to the Kunovice-Loucka and Rajnochovice stations in the Czech Republic. The information about the restriction was published in the ZSSK Cargo telegram
PKP LHS offers discounts for transportation of certain cargoes
According to the announcement by Polish railway operator PKP LHS dated 29 August, the company is applying special discounts for its customers for the transportation of hard coal (HS 2701) in international traffic (export, import, transit)
Handling at Ukraine – Hungary border crossings*
As many as 530 wagons were heading to the Batiovo – Epereshke land border crossing point on September 4, of which 161 wagons were loaded with ore, 177 wagons with grain, and 91 wagons with vegetable oil.
Adif begins testing the Pajares Bypass
The section of the railway network between Leon and Asturias – the Pajares bypass – is one step closer to being put into operation. According to Adif (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias, the state corporation that manages Spain’s rail network), last week the first freight train with metal products
KfW IPEX-Bank finances the purchase of 800 new intermodal wagons for EUROWAGON
KfW IPEX-Bank, a subsidiary of Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), a German state-owned bank, and EUROWAGON, a Polish leasing company, have signed an agreement to finance the purchase of 800 new intermodal wagons.
About 818k tonnes of Ukrainian grain carried by rail in Aug 1-30
A total of 818,000 tonnes of grain were exported from Ukraine by railways during the period started August 1 and ended August 30 compared with 805,000 t during the entire July.