Tag: railcar
Ukrzaliznytsia repaired 9,165 gondola cars, 3,054 grain carriers, and 597 universal platforms during January-July this year.
The using of two triple dumpers allows to unload six cars every three minutes.
This situation arose as a consequence of the increased load on the alternative route for delivery of goods to Central Asia because of transit sanctions imposed by Russia.
The existing fleet of grain wagons is enough for transportation of grain
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company should prohibit the use of railcars with technical defects, particularly those with faulty air-conditioning systems, on its routes.
The Kryukov Railcar Building Works has not produced passenger cars this year but it has increased production of freight cars seven-fold.
Turkmenistan became the leading buyer of Ukrainian freight cars in the first quarter of 2016
Lviv Railways (a division of the Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company) has launched operation of a railcar that was converted specifically for transporting bicycles.
The first consignment of new freight cars produced in Ukraine has been delivered to Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Railway Transport. The consignment consists of 25 gondola cars and 25 boxcars for transporting various types of cargo.
The Cabinet of Ministers is proposing spending 30% of the remainder of targeted environmental (green) investment funds on modernization of Kyiv subway cars.
About 50% of freight cars in the inventory fleet of the Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company are due to be written off in the next 3-4 years. Yevhen Kravtsov, a board member of Ukrzaliznytsia, announced this.
Export of freight cars to Russia by Ukrainian railcar enterprises reduced by 3,400 or 80% to 700 in 2015.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public joint-stock railway company plans to purchase several thousand gondola cars in 2016. The purchase will be carried out for loan money.
The Kryukov Railcar Building Works expects production of freight cars to reduce by 84% to 349 in 2015, compared with 2014. The economic department of the Kremenchuk city executive committee announced this
Ukraine intends to supply 1,500 railcars to Turkmenistan, and supply of 750 of them has already been put out to tender. These railcars will be used on a railway along the TAPI gas pipeline.
The acting head of the State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia), Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi, has said that a significant number of Ukraine’s working fleet of gondola cars is currently our of reach.
Depots of the Ukrzaliznytsia repaired 984 passenger railcars from January to June. In total, railroad workers prepared a fleet of 3,107 railcars, including 1,273 air-conditioned railcars, for transportation of passengers in the summer.
On Monday, the majority of market participants refused to offer their products because they were unable to determine prices
One of the long-standing problems in the railway industry is inefficient use of the fleet of freight cars, which leads one to suspect the State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) of corruption. What are the issues of concern to shippers and private operators, and what does the new leadership in the freight transport need to do?
Such stations will be opened at hotels and various complexes on major Ukrainian highways.