Rental rates of freight cars remained unchanged in October compared with September. Only the rental rates of box cars with a body capacity of 161-175 cu m and fitting platforms changed insignificantly due to currency fluctuations.
Ukrainian wagon building enterprises delivered as many as 277 freight wagons to their customers in September 2024, including 195 hoppers, 46 tank cars, 28 flat cars, seven bunker-type wagons and a gondola car.
Kremenchuk Steel Works produced a total of 1,200 t of large railway castings in September 2024. The overall production of this type of railway castings in the company averaged some 8,300 t in the period from January 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.
During the conference “Production, Operation and Repair of Rolling Stock”, Oleg Yakovenko, Director of the Strategy and Transformation Department at JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, reported on main stages of the development of European TEN-T transport corridors in Ukraine.
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne
According to Dmytro Moskalenko, CEO of Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company, the first modernized ship, Captain Antipov, is on its way from Austria to Serbia, where it plans to take its first cargo.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
Approximately 4.6 million t of agricultural products were exported from Ukraine in September 2024, down 3% or almost 100,000 t compared with August. Thus, local traders exported 4 million t of grain (down 7% year-on-year or 300,000 t), 360,000 t of vegetable oil (up 61% year-on-year or 100,000 t)
The general contractor ATLAS WARD POLSKA has completed the modernization of the Loconi intermodal terminal in Radomsko (Poland) after 18 months of work.
The overall cargo turnover dropped by 73,000 t to 508,000 t at the Ventspils Freeport in September compared with August.