Within the USAID Economic Resilience Activity (ERA) project, two sets of wagon jacks (four units each) have been installed at the Mostyska II – Medyka railway border crossing in Lviv Oblast.
The small-tonnage market remains depressed in the Black and Mediterranean Seas. In the last couple of weeks, ship owners managed to achieve a barely noticeable rate upturn only for shipments from Ukraine ($0.25-0.5/t up), which is quite far from what they expected more than a month after the start of the grain season.
Estonian railway operator Operail has received a license from the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet) to officially register the C30-M diesel locomotive as a mainline freight locomotive. At the same time, it remains capable of performing shunting operations at stations.
According to a post on social media by Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company CEO Dmytro Moskalenko, a caravan of three Kapitan Antypov ships that left Izmail in early July has arrived in Linz. Preparations for the modernization of the first of the three vessels have begun.
According to preliminary data, the Lithuanian operator LTG Cargo transported a total of 270,000 t of grain in July 2024, showing an impressive 80% year-on-year hike.
There is a downtrend on the rental market of gondola cars primarily due to decreased offer of cargoes. Some operators forecast the rates to fall to ₴333-375/day in September (VAT excluding).
The stevedoring companies of Liepaja SEZ handled 521,000 t of various types of goods in July, falling behind the June figure by 9% or 54,000 t.
According to the Decision No. 8788 published in the official gazette of Turkey “Resmi Gazete” on August 6, the government of Turkey has set tariff quotas for sunflower seeds and sunflower oil, which will be effective in 2025.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
Dynamics of average mazut prices, $/tonne