Indices of rolling stock rental rates in Ukraine // Week 11
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
Railway transportation
Mikołaj type 20D locomotive receives operation permit
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.
PKP LHS again offers discounts for transportation of certain cargoes
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.
Poland recorded rail transportation of almost 17.7 mmt of cargo in January 2024*
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).
Adif and Ukrzaliznytsia sign memorandum on joint adaptation of Spanish technology for automatic change of railcar wheel set width
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 »
LDZ ritošā sastāva serviss will receive spare parts made in Ukraine
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.
České dráhy receives three Siemens Vectron locomotives from RSL on lease terms
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.
Dnipro Metallurgical Plant certifies P43 rails
Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, a full-cycle enterprise that is part of DCH Steel Group) has completed the final certification of rail products at Rolling Shop No. 1. The certification was carried out by the Dnipro Railway Transport Certification Authority in cooperation with the Eurasian Center for Engineering and Testing, a center for experimental and…… Read more »
Indices of rolling stock rental rates in Ukraine // Week 10
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
Rolling stock price indices in Ukraine // Week 10
Gondola car price index, €/unit*