More than 635,000 tonnes of grain were exported from Ukraine by railways during the period started November 1 and ended November 8, while a total of 1.73 million t of grain were supplied abroad in October, according to updated reports.
On November 8-9, Chisinau hosted a trilateral meeting of representatives of the railways of Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova to improve the situation with transportation on the Reni – Giurgiulesti – Galati and vice versa routes.
The Bulgarian company Express Service OOD has delivered two ES1000 battery shunting locomotives to Romania for the Softronic company.
About 6,200 wagons with grain were found waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on November 9. Taking into account that approximately 980 wagons are daily accepted at the stations, it might take up to 6 days to serve all these wagons.
From November 10 to November 16, a convention will be in effect restricting transportation of granulated slag (ETSNV 27) from Ukrainian stations via the Yahodyn-exp. border crossing to Poland for all consignees.
TX Logistik AG (part of the Mercitalia Group, a subsidiary of Ferrovie delle Stato Italiane, the Italian state railway) intends to continue developing intermodal freight transportation to Turkey. Therefore, the company is planning to present updated information about its projects at the Logitrans exhibition in Istanbul on November 15-17.
Beacon Rail, a rolling stock leasing company, has ordered ten Vectron MS multisystem locomotives from Siemens Mobility. They are to be used along the Rhine-Alpine corridor, between North Sea ports, and on domestic European routes. This order will bring the number of Vectron locomotives in the company’s fleet to 170.
About 11,400 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on November 8, down overwhelming 1,468 wagons compared with October 31. In particular, as many as 2,173 wagons were standing loaded with grain on November 8
The Riedbahn railway connecting Frankfurt and Mannheim will be completely closed for train traffic from January 1 to 22, 2024. In addition, over the next five months, the line will be partially closed for reconstruction in order to complete the work by the summer
LV Agroo, a Latvian company engaged in the production and distribution of mineral fertilizers, has provided loading of its own products to containers that arrived at the port of Riga with agricultural products from Ukraine.