KfW IPEX-Bank, a subsidiary of Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), a German state-owned bank, and EUROWAGON, a Polish leasing company, have signed an agreement to finance the purchase of 800 new intermodal wagons.
Cost of repairs of 22.5 ton-force freight wagons at private enterprises of Baltic countries in August 2023 (€, VAT excluded, bss FCA)*
Prices for new freight wagons at some Ukrainian enterprises in August (million UAH, VAT excluding, EXW)
Gondola car price index, €/unit
Kremenchuk Steel Works produced almost 1,100 t of railway steel castings in July 2023. The total production averaged some 6,800 t during the period started January 1 and ended July 31, 2023.
Kremenchuk Steel Works produced just 500 t of large railway steel castings in June 2023. The total production reached about 5,700 t in the first half of 2023.
Ukrainian wagon building enterprises sold 242 freight wagons in July 2023, including 125 flat cars, 116 hoppers, and one tank car.
Gondola car price index, €/unit*
The European Loc Pool leasing company is awaiting permission to operate EuroDual electric diesel locomotives manufactured by Stadler in Serbia, and by the end of the year – in Slovenia and Croatia. Certification of this rolling stock for other Balkan countries is scheduled for next year.
The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company has repaired and put back into operation two 3,000 HP tugs on the Lower and Middle Danube. In total, the company has eight such push tugs, five of which have been out of service for 15 years, and two others have been out of service for the past few…… Read more »