Rental rates of gondola cars keep growing in April. In particular, this is due to Ukrzaliznytsia’s changes in tariff distances as well as growing freight rates for large-tonnage vessels throughout March.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
Alpha Trains Group, Europe’s leading private operating lessor of rolling stock, has announced that it has delivered an additional TRAXX 186 locomotive from Alstom to its Polish customer PCC Intermodal.
Rental rates remained unchanged in the Baltic countries in March compared with February.
As part of the Chornotysiv Terminal project (Zakarpattia region), the installation of elevator equipment for storing and handling grain, vegetable oil and containers has been completed.
Kremenchuk Steel Works produced 1,200 tons of heavy railway steel castings in February 2024. The total production averaged some 1,900 tons in the period from January 1 to February 29, 2024.
Ukrainian wagon building enterprises delivered as many as 177 freight wagons to their customers in February 2024, including 77 flat cars, 67 hoppers, 25 tank cars and 8 bunker wagons.
Prices for new freight wagons at some Ukrainian enterprises in March 2024 (million UAH, VAT excluding, EXW)
Approximately 40 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were exported from Ukraine during the period started July 1, 2023 and ended March 31, 2024 (down 13% compared with the same period of the marketing year 2022-23).