LTG Cargo and UZ tested a new cargo transportation route

LTG Cargo and Ukrainian Railways tested a new cargo transportation route Kaunas-Kiev, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

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Lithuanian and Ukrainian transporters seeking to develop new services and intermodal cargo transportation tested a new cargo transportation route Kaunas-Kiev.

The semi-trailers were brought to the Kaunas intermodal terminal from Klaipėda sea port. The first train loaded with semi-trailers has already reached Kyiv.

The test run of the new route was implemented just two months after the official meeting between LTG Cargo and Ukrainian Railways held in September to develop mutually beneficial solutions for the development of international transportation.

“Working with Ukraine, providing customers with attractive cargo transportation solutions between Lithuania and Ukraine, is always at the centre of our attention. Together with our partners, we are constantly looking for ways to facilitate and contribute to more efficient cargo movement between countries.

In today’s conditions, a traffic jam at the limit of this distance on the road can take up to two weeks and more. By this new route we hope to provide clients a reliable and faster way of fight transportation by rail. In this way, we can deliver semi-trailers with cargo to customers up to 3 times faster than this route is covered by road transport”, says Eglė Šimė, head of LTG Cargo.

At the request of customers, cargo transported by railway on this route can also be transported  from/to the seaport of Klaipėda, and to any point in the Baltic countries.

It is expected that, at the request of customers, this route from Lithuania to Ukraine will be able to efficiently and safely transport various types of cargo: fertilizers, PET granules, salt. Cereal crops, building materials, food and beverage products can be imported to Lithuania from Ukraine.

“Cargo on the Kaunas-Kiev route will be transported by LTG Cargo in Lithuania, and LTG Cargo Polska in Poland. At the Medyka (Poland)-Mostyska (Ukraine) border point, semi-trailers with cargo will be transferred from European to Ukrainian broad-gauge wagons and transported by Ukrainian Railways to the “Liski” terminal in Kyiv. From here, cargo can be distributed around the country by road transport”, reports Vyacheslav Yeromin, a board member of “Ukrainian Railways“.

Currently, at the request of customers, LTG Cargo and its partners transport cargo on three international routes connecting Lithuania and Ukraine through the border points of Mostyska-Medyka and Jagodin-Darohusk and Izov-Hrubeshov.

Railway carriers mainly transport oil and agricultural products.

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