On May 11, a new intermodal service between the Interporto di Cervignano terminal in Italy and the DPT Pancevo terminal in Serbia, both on the Danube, is to be launched. At the initial stage, trains will run once a week in both directions
ČD Cargo Poland, a subsidiary of the Czech national freight carrier, has won a tender to transport 1 million tons of coal from Silesian coal mines to the Polanec thermal power plant in Zawada. This is approximately nine loaded trains per week.
Lithuanian carrier LTG Cargo has announced its intention to conduct a public procurement of 200 new 1520 mm gauge gondola cars for the transportation of bulk and other weather-resistant cargo.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
Hannibal, a multimodal transportation operator (part of the Contship holding), has announced its plans to launch a new transportation route connecting Budapest (BILK terminal), Curtici (Arad terminal) and Milan (Melzo railway junction) by the end of 2024. The transit time is expected to be 48 hours. Two round trips per week are planned.
Rental rates of gondola cars stopped growing in May. Market participants explain this by destruction of infrastructure of the Chornomorskyi Sea Port, Trypilska power plant, as well as by shelling of the Kharkiv region and infrastructure of the Kryvyi Rih ore mining and processing enterprises
VTG: Germany – Ukraine VTG started a new cooperation with Lion Logistics to use T3000 wagons and r2L containers for its operations.
A total of 18.68 million t of various goods were transported by railway in Poland in March 2024, up 5% compared with February but 11% below March 2023.
The railway traffic of rolled steel products, semi-finished products, pipes, pig iron and scrap of ferrous metals increased by 8% month-on-month to 700,000 t in Ukraine in March. In particular, exports dropped by 5% month-on-month to 385,800 t, while domestic supplies surged by 29% month-on-month to 312,000 t.
Rental rates remained unchanged in the Baltic countries in April compared with March. The changes in rental rates for box cars with a body capacity of 161-175 cu m were only caused by currency fluctuations.