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.
As of January 5, there were about 28 vessels in the Sulina and Bystre canals waiting to head west to Danube ports (three destined for Izmail and one each for Reni and Giurgiulesti).
Romania is building a new highway to the border with Ukraine – the 450-km-long Autostrada Moldovei (Moldovan Expressway). The new infrastructure is expected to provide Ukraine with additional access to the EU bypassing Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, while Romania will boost economic development in the east of the country.
Almost 9,500 wagons were waiting for unloading at Ukraine’s western land border crossing points on January 3 (down 531 wagons compared with December 27). In particular, as many as 1,203 wagons were standing loaded with grain on January 3 (down 63 units compared with December 27)
The European Union and the Republic of Moldova have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the mapping of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) in Moldova.The indicative maps of the Trans-European Transport Network include European rail and road transport corridors to Moldova and Ukraine.
Ukrzaliznytsia curbs the passage of trains to the seaports of Greater Odesa, the Danube region and border crossings with Moldova by 47 pairs of trains per day (about 2,600 wagons) due to infrastructure limitations. In particular, Podilsk-Rozdilna station, the only station which trains can use when moving towards the directions mentioned above
The PCK Raffinerie GmbH in Schwedt (Germany) has received Kazakh oil from Shell for the first time through the port of Gdansk (Poland).
Ukrzaliznytsia is working to increase the capacity of the Podilsk – Rozdilna section to 50 trains per day (currently, the figure is 47 trains per day, and the passport capacity does not exceed 40 trains). In particular, repair work is currently underway on this section.