As many as 8,400 wagons loaded with various goods were awaiting transferring through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on December 14 compared with almost 9,800 wagons in late November.
More than 7,100 wagons were standing loaded with grain awaiting unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on December 14. With about 987 wagons accepted at the stations a day, it may take up to 7 days to serve all these wagons.
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The Polish leasing company Cargounit is going to receive additional 20 GAMA Marathon electric locomotives from PESA Bydgoszcz S.A. (a Polish concern dealing with the production and modernization of locomotives, wagons, etc.).
According to data covering the period from December 1 to December 13, a total of 1.06 million tonnes of grain were exported from Ukraine by railways (compared with 2.43 million t in November), of which about 807,000 t arrived at Ukrainian ports
The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solskyi held a regular online meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Food of Bulgaria Kirill Vatiev on the supply of agricultural products.
The French company Ermewa has delivered another batch of 23 new 60-foot Sgnss platforms to its customers on the Scandinavian Peninsula (Grenland Rail AS). The platforms were unloaded from a ferry in the Swedish port of Trelleborg.
The Lithuanian freight carrier LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) is sending a train with groupage cargo of three customers in containers from the Kaunas Intermodal Terminal to Ukraine. The train has already been formed and will carry PET granules, ammonium sulfate, and empty containers.
The railway traffic of mineral fertilizers dropped by 44,000 t to about 157,000 t in Ukraine in November, showing a 22% plunge compared with October.
A total of 1,708 wagons were transferred through the Batiovo – Epereshke land border crossing point in November, showing a handling rate of 57 wagons per day (compared with 56 wagons in the previous month) including 35 wagons with grain (up 1.7 units daily from October).