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.
Polish operator PKP CARGO has signed a memorandum of intent to build a multimodal terminal in Radomsko. The project is aimed at developing a terminal that will combine rail and road transport, reorienting train and truck traffic from the center of Radomsko to its outskirts.
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
Ukrainian wagon building enterprises delivered as many as 110 freight wagons to their customers in March 2024, including 54 hoppers, 30 flat cars, 22 tank cars and 4 bunker-type wagons.
The output of large railway steel castings averaged some 900 t at Kremenchuk Steel Works in March 2024. In the period from January 1 to March 31, the enterprise produced about 2,800 t of such castings.