The Riga Freeport stepped up transshipment of mining and metallurgical products by 150% year-on-year to 178,800 t in the period from January 1 to February 29, 2024. In particular, handling of scrap, metals, and ferroalloys rocketed by 2.5 times to 147,500 t, while that of finished steel products surged by 2.6 times to 31,300… Read more »
PJSC Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) has announced that it will provide a comprehensive cargo transportation service at a single tariff. Previously, the company focused on river transportation, with transshipment, delivery to the port and other components handled by the cargo owner
The operator Rail Cargo Logistics (part of the Rail Cargo Group) has recently received 50 new Tagnpps grain carriers (with a body volume of 95 cubic meters) from the French leasing company Ermewa. The rolling stock was delivered from the Tatravagonka Poprad plant in two batches
The Black Sea and Adriatic markets remain the most depressed in the small-tonnage segment: the already low activity has decreased slightly further this week. The fact that downtime in Bosporus reached 3-4 days in the last couple of weeks due to adverse weather had almost no impact on the vessel list in the Marmara… Read more »
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
From March 22 to March 29, the carrier RCX will be prohibited from transporting cargo of any type from Ukrainian stations through the Koprivnica-Drnje-Botovo border crossing to Croatia for all consignees.
Last year, the Estonian railway company Eesti Raudtee held tenders for the renewal of the railway contact network from Lagedi station to Aegviidu station. As a result of the tender, Eesti Raudtee signed an agreement with Leonhard Weiss OÜ. The total investment amount is €49 million.
Starting in March, Lithuanian company LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) will provide transportation of oil products from the ORLEN Lietuva plant to Estonia via the 311 km Bugeniai – Valga route. The Lithuanian operator can deliver a rolling stock of 5,300 t of cargo across the Baltic States in less than one day.
During a meeting of Ukrainian, Romanian, and Moldovan railroaders, Valeriy Tkachov, deputy director of the commercial work department at Ukrzaliznytsia, said that, following a request from Calea Ferată din Moldova (CFM), Ukrzaliznytsia changed its train formation plan.
During the European Parliament’s meeting on March 12, representatives of many political groups called for an embargo and sanctions on food and agricultural products originating in Russia and Belarus.