Ukrzaliznytsia is launching a new Intermodal Train service for the transportation of containers to Poland. The trains will run on the routes Kyiv/Odesa/Dnipro/Vinnytsia-Gdansk.
As many as 2,287 wagons with a total of 150,600 t of goods were handled at the Batiovo – Epereshke land border crossing point in the period from July 1 to July 24.
As many as 267 wagons were transferred daily through the Chop – Čierna nad Tisou land border crossing point as of July 20 (up 2 wagons compared with the previous week).
There were about 7,090 wagons with various goods waiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of July 20 compared with 7,080 wagons seen in late June.
Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) will increase the length of each of the six tracks at the Baltic Rail Gate intermodal terminal (Lübeck-Travemünde) from 600 m to 750 m (which corresponds to the standard length of trains in Europe), which will reduce shunting time and increase the handling of semi-trailers from 140,000 to 240,000 per year.
Some 300 wagons were transferred daily through the Chop – Čierna nad Tisou land border crossing as of June 15 (down 28 wagons compared with the previous week).
There are about 6,500 wagons with various goods waiting to be transferred through Ukraine’s western land border crossing points as of July 13 compared with 7,100 wagons in late June. Almost 2,100 wagons are loaded with ore (down 529 units compared with June).
A total of 10,827 wagons were transferred through the Izov-Hrubieszów land border crossing point in June.
PKP Cargo reports that due to the lack of coordination between cargo owners and carriers, there is a queue of trains moving to the recipient Port Północny in the port of Gdansk.
Up to 164 wagons per day were transferred through the the Vadul-Siret – Dornesti (Romania) land border crossing as of July 4 (down 1 wagon compared with the previous week).