Ukrainian wagon building enterprises delivered as many as 277 freight wagons to their customers in September 2024, including 195 hoppers, 46 tank cars, 28 flat cars, seven bunker-type wagons and a gondola car.
Kremenchuk Steel Works produced a total of 1,200 t of large railway castings in September 2024. The overall production of this type of railway castings in the company averaged some 8,300 t in the period from January 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.
During the conference “Production, Operation and Repair of Rolling Stock”, Oleg Yakovenko, Director of the Strategy and Transformation Department at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, reported on main stages of the development of European TEN-T transport corridors in Ukraine.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
Approximately 4.6 million t of agricultural products were exported from Ukraine in September 2024, down 3% or almost 100,000 t compared with August. Thus, local traders exported 4 million t of grain (down 7% year-on-year or 300,000 t), 360,000 t of vegetable oil (up 61% year-on-year or 100,000 t)
The general contractor ATLAS WARD POLSKA has completed the modernization of the Loconi intermodal terminal in Radomsko (Poland) after 18 months of work.
In the period from January 1 to September 30, Latvian Railways (VAS Latvijas dzelzceļš, LDZ) carried 8.63 million tonnes of cargo, down 25.5% year-on-year, according to data provided by the company.
From 27 October and until the decision is revoked, ZSSK Cargo will be banned from transporting pellets (ETSNG 141114) from Hrekuvata station (Prydnipro Railway) via Uzhhorod-Exp (ZSR) to Haniska pri Kosiciach in Slovakia.
On October 17, the Moldovan Railways (Calea Feratã din Moldova) received a vessel carrying 2,400 tons of P-65 rails from Aktobe Rail and Section Works LLP (Kazakhstan) under a contract signed earlier this year. They will be used for the overhaul of railways in Moldova.
CLIP Intermodal, a Polish intermodal operator, is launching a new intermodal service between CLIP terminals in Swarzedz (Poland) and Can Tunis in Barcelona (Spain). The planned number of flights is two per week, departing from Swarzedz on Tuesdays and Saturdays and from Barcelona on Saturdays and Tuesdays.