Rail Cargo Group, part of the ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways), delivered the first train with corn from Ukraine to Austria on May 6.

Railway delivery

This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply.

ÖBB Rail Cargo Group has always been engaged in the transportation of Ukrainian grain. But transportation was carried out mainly in the direction of the northern regions of Germany. With the start of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, the volume of agricultural cargo transportation increased – in March-April, RCG organized 30 grain trains from Ukraine. In total it was 60 000 tons of grain.

On Friday, May 6, the first train with Ukrainian corn arrived in Austria. The destination is the municipality of Aschach an der Donau in the Eferding district of Upper Austria. Before that, the train made a stop at the Kledering station near Vienna, where it was met by Austrian Minister of Agriculture Elisabeth Köstinger, Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Khyminets and ÖBB CEO Andreas Matta.

“The first grain train has arrived in Austria… By facilitating supplies through the creation of Green Corridors, we are helping Ukraine, which otherwise would not be able to export its goods. And we support the supply of agricultural raw materials and food. Our goal is to position Austria more and more as a hub for the supply of raw materials from Ukraine in the future,” said Andreas Matta. “The suffering of millions of Ukrainians has become a sad part of everyday life for all of us. It is all the more important to me that we at ÖBB are doing everything we can to help these people. For this reason, the ÖBB RCG showed commitment from the start of the war. On the one hand, we support the transportation of humanitarian aid, and on the other hand, we want to contribute to the economic survival of Ukraine. Therefore, we regularly transport grain from Ukraine to Europe and we want to expand in this direction in the near future.”

Further plans are to ensure at least two grain deliveries from Ukraine to Austria per month. Each train will have 25 hopper cars with a capacity of 1 400 tons of cargo.

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