Starting in March, Lithuanian company LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) will provide transportation of oil products from the ORLEN Lietuva plant to Estonia via the 311 km Bugeniai – Valga route. The Lithuanian operator can deliver a rolling stock of 5,300 t of cargo across the Baltic States in less than one day.
During a meeting of Ukrainian, Romanian, and Moldovan railroaders, Valeriy Tkachov, deputy director of the commercial work department at Ukrzaliznytsia, said that, following a request from Calea Ferată din Moldova (CFM), Ukrzaliznytsia changed its train formation plan.
During the European Parliament’s meeting on March 12, representatives of many political groups called for an embargo and sanctions on food and agricultural products originating in Russia and Belarus.
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The SM48 series locomotive type 20D “Mikołaj” modernized by the Polish company Tabor Dębica has received a certificate of conformity for the type of railway vehicle.
According to the announcement by Polish railway operator PKP LHS of March 2, the company is offering its customers special discounts for transportation of coal (HS 2701), iron ore (2601) and metal products (72, 73) when importing and transiting from/through all LHS stations.
A total of 17.7 million tonnes of cargo of various product groups were transported by railway in Poland in January 2024 (unchanged month-on-month but down 13% year-on-year).
Rail infrastructure operator Adif and Ukrzaliznytsia will cooperate to modernize Ukraine’s railway network. The CEOs of the companies, Angel Contreras and Yevhen Lyashchenko, signed a memorandum under which a pilot project will be developed using the technology of an automatic system for changing the width of wheel sets of freight rolling stock for different…… Read more »
Anda Sivina, Chairman of the Board of LDZ ritošā sastāva serviss, and Andriy Smorodin, Chairman of the Association of Transport Infrastructure Innovations of Ukraine, signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at developing economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation during the Ukrainian-Latvian business forum in late February.
Michal Krapinec, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Czech Railways (České dráhy, a.s.), announced on LinkedIn that the company last week received three Siemens Vectron locomotives from the leasing company RSL under a contract signed last year.