As of January 16, there were about 35 vessels at the Sulina and Bystre canals waiting to go west to the Danube ports (four each to Izmail and Reni, and one to Giurgiulesti). The average waiting time for westbound and eastbound calls ranges from one to three days.
In January 2024, a floating LNG terminal – FSRU Alexandroupolis – with an annual liquefied gas transshipment capacity of 5.5 bcm is to be connected to the 28 km long subsea and onshore high-pressure gas pipeline, which will allow feeding raw materials into the Greek gas transmission system and further to end consumers in…… Read more »
The State Customs Service of Ukraine and its Moldovan counterparts will jointly control rail traffic at the Novosavytske-Kuchurhan border crossing point. Representatives of the customs and border administrations of both countries have already signed the Act on the readiness of the Kuchurhan-Novosavytske railway crossing point for joint control.
Starting January 8, METRANS Group (a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG) will launch a new daily train service between Germany’s largest seaport, Hamburg, and the railway junction in Kornwestheim (near Stuttgart).
At the end of December, a transshipment record was broken on the Baltic Hub railway line, with 8,201 containers handled in a week. The average figure in 2023 was 6,500 containers per week.
Lithuanian company LTG Cargo (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai) has announced the strengthening of intermodal services between Kaunas and Duisburg, Pruszkow and Slavków with the participation of LTG Cargo Polska, which has 31 locomotives at its disposal.
Romanian steelmaker LIBERTY Galati (a subsidiary of the UK-based LIBERTY Steel Group) plans to modernize its Romportmet Galati port to increase its throughput capacity.
The German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL) announced in a statement that DB Cargo employees would suspend work from the evening of January 9 to the evening of January 12 to go on strike. Passenger traffic operators Deutsche Bahn AG, Transdev and City Bahn Chemnitz have also joined the action (from January 10 to 12).
About 7,900 wagons with grain were found waiting for unloading at Ukrainian sea ports on January 4, 2024. Taking into account that approximately 1,100 wagons per day are accepted at the stations
According to the information received by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine from the Border Guard of the Republic of Poland, on January 6 at 21:00 (Kyiv time), the protest action in front of the Medyka – Shehyni checkpoint ended.