The maximum volume of sugar allowed for exports during the marketing year 2023-2024 has been set at 650,000 t. This decision was adopted by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine together with the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine “Ukrtsukor” and recorded in the corresponding Memorandum of Understanding.
On average 242 wagons were transferred daily through the Chop – Čierna nad Tisou land border crossing point as of November 23 (up 33 units per day in two weeks). In particular, 203 wagons were moving on export routes (up 20 units), while 39 wagons arrived with imported goods (up 13 wagons).
Cost of repairs of 23.5 ton-force freight wagons at private enterprises of Baltic countries in November 2023 (€, VAT excluded, bss FCA)*
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*
Almost all November rental rates have stayed at the level of October in the Baltic countries. The adjustments in some rental rates are due to currency fluctuations.
Zaporizhstal has extended the scope of the certificate of conformity for hot-rolled steel products to the requirements of EN 10025-1 from S235-275 J0-J2 and S355 J0-J2 steel grades.
DTEK Energy has already supplied 103,000 t of coal imported from Poland to its thermal power plants. Deliveries are regular, and the company plans to import another 177,000 t of coal by the end of the autumn-winter period under the contracts.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ukrzaliznytsia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. According to it, USAID will help modernize the section on the Mostyska-Lviv (Sknyliv) route.
Ukrzaliznytsia has received 30,000 t of diesel fuel from the American oil company ExxonMobil, which transported the product by tanker to the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania. The fuel will then be delivered by rail to Ukraine.
The railway company Colas Rail is opening a subsidiary, Colas Rail Traction, which will be responsible for all traction and freight operations in France, including the transportation of machinery, work trains and cargo.