Liepaja SEZ cargo turnover in February 2024
The stevedoring companies of the Liepaja SEZ all together handled about 624,000 t of various types of cargo in February (down 10% month-on-month or 69,000 t from January).
Riga Freeport cargo turnover in February 2024
The Riga Freeport announced a 299,000 t slump in the February transshipment to 1.4 million t compared with January.
Adif and Ukrzaliznytsia sign memorandum on joint adaptation of Spanish technology for automatic change of railcar wheel set width
Rail infrastructure operator Adif and Ukrzaliznytsia will cooperate to modernize Ukraine’s railway network. The CEOs of the companies, Angel Contreras and Yevhen Lyashchenko, signed a memorandum under which a pilot project will be developed using the technology of an automatic system for changing the width of wheel sets of freight rolling stock for different… Read more »
Port of Klaipeda cargo turnover in February 2024
The cargo turnover dropped by 876,000 t to 3.2 million t at the port of Klaipeda in February. In particular, the Klaipeda State Seaport reported a decrease of 500,000 t to 2.6 million t in the overall transshipment volume in February compared with January, while the handling volume sagged by 376,000 t to 590,000… Read more »
Freight indices // Week 10
Owners of small-tonnage vessels are still struggling from shortage of spot cargo offers, which has even sharpened somewhat this week both in the Black and Mediterranean Seas. However, the depressed sentiment was quite expected given the start of Ramadan in Muslim countries as well as the ongoing decline in export quotes for most of… Read more »
Bunker fuel prices // Week 10
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
LDZ ritošā sastāva serviss will receive spare parts made in Ukraine
Anda Sivina, Chairman of the Board of LDZ ritošā sastāva serviss, and Andriy Smorodin, Chairman of the Association of Transport Infrastructure Innovations of Ukraine, signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at developing economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation during the Ukrainian-Latvian business forum in late February.
České dráhy receives three Siemens Vectron locomotives from RSL on lease terms
Michal Krapinec, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Czech Railways (České dráhy, a.s.), announced on LinkedIn that the company last week received three Siemens Vectron locomotives from the leasing company RSL under a contract signed last year.
Dnipro Metallurgical Plant certifies P43 rails
Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, a full-cycle enterprise that is part of DCH Steel Group) has completed the final certification of rail products at Rolling Shop No. 1. The certification was carried out by the Dnipro Railway Transport Certification Authority in cooperation with the Eurasian Center for Engineering and Testing, a center for experimental and… Read more »
Indices of rolling stock rental rates in Ukraine // Week 10
Gondola car rental rate index, €/day*