Tag: Ukrzaliznytsia
The Ministry of Infrastructure is preparing a memorandum with a major Chinese investor on preparation of feasibility studies for development of a high-speed rail line along the Kyiv-Lviv-Warsaw-Berlin route and the Kyiv-Odesa route.
Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelian expects the project for rail transportation of containers to China via the Trans-Caspian route to be finalized in May.
One of the priorities of the new Cabinet of Ministers is creation of a competitive market for rail carriers. This is stated in the government's action program that was approved by the parliament
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company saved UAH 75.3 million on purchases in the first quarter of 2016. The company made the savings on purchases of oil and diesel fuel.
The committee on appointment of heads of strategic enterprises (the Nomination Committee) has recommended Wojciech Balczun to the Cabinet of Ministers for approval as the board chairman of the Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company.
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 supervisory board of the Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company elected Deputy Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelian as its chairman at its first meeting on 8 April.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company will invest UAH 5.6 billion in upgrade of rolling stock (purchase of new and upgrade of existing) in 2016.
Steady operation of a freight train on the so-called new "Silk Road" requires Ukrainian membership of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TMTM) and establishment of a single through tariff.
Railway freight rates will increase by 15% on 1 May and increase by the average annual rate of 10%. The Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company’s acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov announced this.
PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia board member Yevhen Kravtsov and head of Ukrzaliznytsia’s department of reform and corporate development Andrii Bukovskyi discuss when a railway freight company will be created and who opposes reform of Ukrzaliznytsia.
Evhen Kravtsov was appointed the new acting board chairman of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia. Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi was removed from the board.
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