Railway freight

The order of the Ministry of Infrastructure on the procedure for writing off freight rail cars with an exceeded period of standard operation will be signed by the end of November.

Restrictions on the acceptance for transportation of wagons to the Baltic countries and the CIS (except for Moldova) were announced on the website of Ukrzaliznytsia.

Ukraine is interested in jointly developing of rail container traffic on the Asia-Europe route with Slovakia.This was stated by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal after a meeting with the Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger in Uzhgorod, reports the railway magazine Railway Supply.

In connection with the situation with migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border, the Polish authorities announced the possible closure of border crossings, including railway ones, on the border with Belarus.

TransContainer together with the Korean company Pantos Logistics and the Polish PKP LHS have launched a regular service for the transportation of goods in containers from the Republic of Korea to Poland via the Far East and Ukraine.

The first trip of the freight train on the route Klaipeda-Chornomorsk will take place before the end of the year.Picture: LTG CargoDuring the Rail EXPO exhibition, LTG Cargo Ukraine presented a project for the transportation of goods by semi-trailers along the route Klaipeda (Lithuania) - Chernomorsk.

Russian Railways has stopped the transit of thermal coal from Kazakhstan to Ukraine, said Andriy Gerus, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services.

The 30th Tariff Conference of the railway administrations of the CIS countries was held online. At the meeting, the parties adopted a new Tariff Policy for the cargo freight in international traffic for the 2022 year.

The main operator of transit traffic from China to Europe, UTLC ERA, said that freight rail traffic from China to the EU grew by 36% in the first 9 months of 2021.

Russian metallurgists complain about delays in the transportation of products due to the lack of locomotives. This was stated by representatives of the Russian Steel Association.

The branch "Center for Transport Logistics" JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" has not yet published the base rates for the use of wagons, which will be relevant from November 1.

Before the celebration of "Golden Week" (October 1), the price of a container in China dropped by 22%.The rental price for a container is $ 6,898, the lowest one since the beginning of the year, informs Railway Supply magazine, citing Railfreight.