More than 8,200 wagons with various goods were awaiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on December 11 compared with almost 9,800 wagons in late November.
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Czech railroad operator EP Cargo (part of the European energy company Energy and Industry Holding) has purchased 50 wagons with a body volume of 103 cubic meters for transportation of agricultural products.
The French company Ermewa has delivered 55 new intermodal wagons of the Sgmmnss 80′ type, manufactured at the Tatravagonka plant, to a Swedish customer. They are suitable for transportation of 20-, 30-, 40-foot and interchangeable containers.
AB Klaipėdos nafta (KN) is resuming the supply of diesel fuel in ISO containers (30,000 tonnes) by rail through Poland to Ukraine after a break. This batch of fuel was transferred from a tanker to KN tanks and then to tank containers.
The Hungarian Road Transport Association (MKFE) has announced that it will go on strike starting December 11 to draw the attention of the European Commission and the Hungarian government to the market impact of the EU-Ukraine agreement. The protests will take place at the Zahony – Chop border crossing.
In the period from December 9, 2023 to February 4, 2024, the carrier PKP Cargo S.A. will be subject to a convention that will restrict the transit of all cargo from Ukrainian railway stations to Germany and Poland through the Kostrzyn (PKP) and Kustrin-Kietz (DB) border crossings for all recipients.
A total of 134.7 million tonnes of goods of various product groups were transported in the Ukrzaliznytsia rail network during the period started January 1 and ended November 30, 2023, down 4% compared with the same period of the previous year.
Grain exports from Ukraine by railways averaged some 463,500 tonnes in the period started December 1 and ended December 6. Note that a total of 2.43 million t of grain were delivered abroad by railways in October. Up to 349,600 t of grain meant for oversea shipments arrived at Ukraine’s ports in the period…… Read more »
Gondola car rental rates have been growing in December. Market participants explain this by active shipments of iron ore. Thus, iron ore exports reached 2.3 million t in November, up 20% month-on-month. In particular, iron ore shipments to seaports surged by 66% month-on-month to 1.3 million t.