With two trains on 1520 mm track gauge and 1435 mm track gauge, the average daily handling rate amounted to 124 wagons at the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti crossing (Romania) last week. There were 407 wagons waiting for handling at that station on January 17.
Although most players returned from holidays and the full-fledged work resumed, the downward trend persists in the small-tonnage market, especially in the Black Sea region, where even the most popular cargo traffic – grain from the Danube ports – remains dull.
The Ventspils Freeport increased the transshipment volume to 1.5 million tonnes in December 2022, exceeding the November results by about 192,000 t.
Ukrzaliznytsia is going to receive 20,000 tonnes of rails from the French manufacturer Saarstahl Rail SAS this year. Production and supply of rails are financed by the French government under certain credit terms.
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Romania is planning to invest 1.8 billion lei in the modernization of the Dermenest – Vikshan – Kordon railway line near the border with Moldova.
The leasing company Railpool started construction of an environmentally friendly locomotive workshop near Hamburg, which will provide a wide range of services – from maintenance to major repairs in the shortest possible time. The main construction works will start in early 2023 and will be completed in Dec 2023.
LTG Cargo Ukraine (subsidiary of Lietuvos geležinkeliai – LTG Cargo transportation company) and Polish PKP Cargo concluded an agreement authorizing LTG Cargo Ukraine to become the operator conducting rail transportation of goods between Lithuania and Ukraine through the territory of Poland.
The total number of wagons waiting for unloading amounted to 20,600 units as of Dec 14 (down 1,463 wagons compared with early Dec).
As of December 14, as many as 19,900 wagons addressed to foreign operators were waiting in the Ukrzaliznytsia’s network.
LTG Cargo Polska (Lietuvos geležinkeliai’s subsidiary) is launching a new route of its own, which will connect the Kaunas Intermodal Terminal (KIT) with Slavkuvo, where there is a PKP LHS broad-gauge railway station (the westernmost station from the Ukrainian border).