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.
Over the past month, the Polish rail freight carrier Freightliner PL has expanded its rolling stock fleet by 55 Eamnos open wagons, which it received from the leasing company Greenbrier.
The Italian logistics company GTS Rail plans to increase its fleet of intermodal platforms by 54 more wagons. They are to be delivered by early 2024. The total investment will amount to €7 million.
Alpha Trains Leasing Company (Alpha Trains Group, Luxembourg) is leasing four Vectron locomotives to Swedish railway operator Hector Rail AB for the first time.
As many as 5,400 wagons with grain were found waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on November 16. Taking into account that approximately 967 wagons are accepted at the stations per day
A total of 10.97 million tonnes of grain and legumes were exported from Ukraine since the beginning of the current marketing year started July 1 and up to November 15, 2023, which is 30% below the result of the same period of MY 2022/2023.
Grain exports from Ukraine by railways exceeded 1.2 million tonnes in the period started November 1 and ended November 15. To compare, a total of 1.73 million t of grain were carried abroad by railways in October, according to updated reports.
Approximately 10,500 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on November 15, down 2,355 wagons compared with October 31. In particular, as many as 2,009 wagons were standing loaded with grain on November 15