About 18,160 wagons were standing in a queue waiting for transferring through Ukraine’s land border crossings on March 22, 2023 (up 976 wagons compared to March 1), of which approximately 4,830 wagons were loaded with grain (up 691 units compared with March 1).
According to the report on the readiness of the Basarabiaska-Serpneve 1 railroad crossing point for joint control, traffic on the section may be opened on March 25.
Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing served about 191 wagons per day in the period from March 1 till March 21 (two trains on a 1520 mm gauge track and two trains on a 1435 mm gauge track).
Kernel Agro Holding has signed a long-term contract with Polish companies to manufacture 2,000 railway containers with a range of transportation services.
TX Logistik AG (part of the Mercitalia Group, a subsidiary of Ferrovie delle Stato Italiane, the Italian state railroad), together with German company Duisport and Dutch company Samskip, have established a new company, Ziel Terminal GmbH, which will operate the Logport III intermodal terminal in Duisburg.
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA has signed a contract for the production of design documentation for the modernization and construction of railways leading to the future Lubiatowo-Kopalino Nuclear Power Plant (Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe), which will ensure the delivery of goods for the construction and operation of the nuclear power plant.
Following the commissioning of backup coal-fired power plants in the fall of 2022, DB Cargo has transported 3 million t of coal (the company estimates that the daily volume is about 30,000 t) for 15 companies in Germany.
The intermodal operator METRANS, part of the European logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, is optimizing the connection between the port of Wilhelmshaven and its terminal in Prague, which was launched in June 2022.
Ukraine exported a total of 1.24 million tonnes of grain by railway in the period from March 1 till March 15, of which some 416,000 t were carried through the western border crossings, while 822,000 t were shipped from sea ports.
Spanish carrier Rail & Truck Strait Union (RTSU) and rolling stock leasing operator Alpha Trains have signed an agreement for Stadler locomotives.