Tag: Ukrzaliznytsia
Fitch assigned PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia a Long-term foreign currency IDR of 'C' and a Long-term local currency IDR of 'RD'.
Ukrainian railroad workers managed to take 12 locomotives, 9 electric locomotives, and one rail bus out of the Crimea before its occupation by Russian troops.
The Alstom company is negotiating with French banks and the government of France on provision of a loan to Ukraine for purchase of new locomotives. Alstom’s development director in Ukraine Igor Vorobiev announced this.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company has changed the timetable of the Lviv-Kyiv high-speed train to allow passengers arriving from Poland to catch the train. The changes to the timetable will take effect on 28 March.
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.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company intends to send a group of its employees to the European Union to study the operations of major passenger train stations, Ukrzaliznytsia’s acting Board Chairman Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi announced this.
The test container train that departed from Illichivsk for China on the Trans-Caspian route on 15 January
The proportion of bondholders that accepted Ukrzaliznytsia’s restructuring offer was not specified in the statement.
Ukrzaliznytsia will make a net loss of UAH 6 billion and its capital investments will amount to only UAH 3.7 billion in 2016 if rail freight tariffs are not raised.
The 32-wagon train is loaded with food and metal products.
The Lemtrans freight forwarding company increased cargo transportation by 7.4 million tons or 13.1% to 63.7 million tons in 2015, compared with the 2014.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company intends to raise freight rates to 15% on 1 March if it receives approval from all the relevant agencies. Minister of Infrastructure Andrii Pyvovarskyi announced this.
The management of Ukrzaliznytsia also expects optimization of the company’s operations to increase its profit by UAH 5.2 billion
The date of emergence of the first ferry is 1 March and the date for the next ferry is the end of March.
As of today, the cost of transportation by rail already accounts for almost 10% of the prime cost of cast iron
Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi also said that Ukrzaliznytsia is currently working to persuade other European shippers to use the Ukraine-China train
The first trip of the new container train on the Silk Road route took 15.5 days instead of the announced 11-12 days.
Ukraine will lose 1 million tons of cargo if it fails to find a route to Central Asia that bypasses Russia. To increase the attractiveness of the Ukraine-Central Asia-China bypass route, ways of reducing its cost and accelerate it are being considered.
Ukrzaliznytsia has significantly lowered the tariff for transportation of containers on transit from the port of Illichivsk to the western border of Ukraine.