The European Commission and the European Investment Bank have proposed the deployment of the European gauge on railways to Lviv and Chisinau.
As of July 13, the management of the Moldovan Railways (CFM) was finalizing the last legal issues with the government to establish a discount for the transit of Ukrainian products.
There are about 6,500 wagons with various goods waiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of July 13 compared with 7,100 wagons in late June. Almost 2,100 wagons are loaded with ore (down 529 units compared with June).
Up to 151 wagons per day were transferred through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing as of July 11 (down 13 wagons compared with the previous week).
About 5,600 wagons to be transferred to foreign operators were waiting in the Ukrzaliznytsia rail network on July 6.
The Batiovo – Epereshke land border crossing has handled 890 wagons since July 1.
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VTG will build a workshop in Grossreschen (Brandenburg, Germany) to be used for the maintenance and repair of its own freight car fleet with a capacity of about 2,000 units per year (1,700 square meters of construction area).
In early July, the Czech rail carrier EP Cargo (part of the Energy and Industry Holding) will start providing transshipment services for agricultural products between 1520 mm and 1435 mm gauge wagons and into road transport near the Slovak-Ukrainian border.
After testing, the Federal Railways Administration (das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, EBA) confirmed compliance with the requirements and approved the project for the construction of the Multi Hub Westfalen intermodal terminal.