There are still wagons with agricultural products loaded in April in the queue at the border crossings with Romania. This issue was discussed during an online conference with the participation of Romanian rail carriers on September 6, informs Railway Supply citing Rail.insider.

Grain carriers

As of September 5, there were almost three thousand wagons in line for the Vadul-Siret-Dorneshty crossing. There are 826 wagons at the Dyakovo-Khalmeu crossing. At the same time, 377 wagons have been waiting in line since April. 330 units of these are addressed to the Romanian carrier GFR and require the change to European gauge bogies. The low transfer volumes of these wagons are due precisely to the shortage of bogies.

“The queue is gradually shrinking. If we analyze, as of August 1, there were 1,209 April wagons, and now there are 377. The queue for 900 wagons was “knocked down”. But this is not enough. So, these April wagons must be handed over in the near future,” said Valery Tkachev, Deputy Director of the Department of Commercial Work at Ukrzaliznytsia JSC.

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In addition, 863 wagons, loaded in May, go to the Romanian crossings. Almost 700 of these are on Vadul Siret. Despite this, over the past month there has been a significant reduction in the queue: in early August it was 1958 units. According to a representative of the UZ regional traffic control center, this was partly due to the redirection of wagons to other crossings.

Valery Tkachev noted that the “April” grain carriers must be transferred and unloaded as soon as possible, because the cargo in them “probably spoiled”

Viktor Gurdish, a representative of the Romanian carrier GFR, made a proposal on how Ukrzaliznytsia could speed up the transfer of wagons to the carrier. In particular, Ukrainian railway workers can form trains for one recipient, including one port operator, per area of ​​the Constanta port. In his opinion, this may slightly speed up the processing of goods in the port and, accordingly, the return of empty rolling stock.

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