The Swiss leasing company European Loc Pool has ordered 10 new EuroDual locomotives from Stadler, with delivery scheduled for 2025-2026. The total number of the company’s traction rolling stock will be 114 units, including 84 EuroDual locomotives and 30 Euro 9000 locomotives.
Ukrzaliznytsia is working to increase the capacity of the Podilsk – Rozdilna section to 50 trains per day (currently, the figure is 47 trains per day, and the passport capacity does not exceed 40 trains). In particular, repair work is currently underway on this section.
About 266 wagons were transferred daily through the Chop – Čierna nad Tisou land border crossing point as of December 21 (up 9 units per day in two weeks). Approximately 199 wagons per day were moving on export routes (down 1 unit), while 67 wagons arrived with imported cargo (up 10 units).
According to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the truck traffic at the Medyka border crossing point (Poland) adjacent to the Ukrainian Shehyni border crossing point was blocked again from January 4. Currently, about 800 trucks are waiting to enter Ukraine at this checkpoint.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine signed Resolution No. 1402 dated December 27, 2023 “On Approval of the Lists of Goods Subject to Licensing and Quotas for 2024”. The resolution came into force from January 1, 2024.
DB Cargo Romania, a subsidiary of DB Cargo AG, is expanding its fleet of locomotives manufactured by Sofronic Craiova: late last year it was to receive a TransMontana (TM 082), and is expected to receive a TM 085 in April 2024.
Kremenchuk Steel Works did not produce large railway steel castings in November 2023. The total production of large railway steel castings at the factory reached about 9,200 t in the period from January 1 to November 30, 2023.
Ukraine’s wagon building enterprises delivered as many as 110 freight wagons to their customers in November 2023, including 81 hoppers, 18 flatcars and 11 tank cars.
Prices for new freight wagons at some Ukrainian enterprises in December 2023 (million UAH, VAT excluding, EXW)
On January 3, German intermodal transport company Kombiverkehr KG launches a regular route between the Lübeck Dänischburg CTL terminal and the Swedish cities of Hallsberg and Stockholm. The connection will be provided by rail and ferry.