Tag: Ukrzaliznytsia
A container train has departed on a trial run on the Trans-Caspian corridor (Ukraine-China), through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. We visit the Illichivsk port to find whether this is just a public-relations move or a real business project.
Ukrzaliznytsia has completed the first phase of construction of the Beskyd railway tunnel. According to the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure, the hardest part of the job has been done - the upper part of the tunnel has been drilled.
PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia will convene a meeting of bondholders on 17 February for talks on restructuring the Eurobonds it issued for USD 500 million at the yield rate of 9.5%, which will mature in 2018.
The Alstom company (France) will hold the latest round of negotiations on the possibility of supplying dual-system mainline electric freight locomotives with the management of PJSC Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) on Thursday, 21 January.
Part of a German loan of EUR 50 million will be used to purchase the equipment.
Zavhorodnyi replied that he saw no economic benefit in this.
The Hyundai Corporation is considering the possibility of establishing a Ukrainian-Korean production facility in the Lviv region. South Korean manufacturer wants to conquest of new markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
The PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia has launched daily operation of two passenger trains between Ukraine and Romania. The trains connected the Vadul Siret station (Chernivtsi region) with the Romanian cities of Bucharest and Suceava.
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 Ukrainian High-Speed Rail Company has made a loss of UAH 864.2 million since the beginning of 2015. This is 2.5 times more than the losses in the same period of last year and nine times more than the losses in 2013.
Fitch Ratings has said that restructuring of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia's Eurobonds would be completed in late February or early March 2016. The debt restructuring terms agreed by Ukrzaliznytsia.
Online sales accounted for 37.9% of the total number of Ukrzaliznytsia’s train ticket sales in the period of January-November.
The relevant decision was made at a meeting of Ukrzaliznytsia technical council on 30 September.
According to Saakashvili, Ukraine's losses are estimated at about USD 5 billion, including USD 2.2 billion in lost profits resulting from understated tariffs.
According to Volodymyr Omelian, joint expert work on preparation of project proposals will begin next week.
"Today, we come to the point that we are transporting passengers over a distance of 80 kilometers for UAH 10," Zavhorodnyi said.
According to Smulczynski, an intergovernmental agreement should be signed for establishment of uniform transport conditions on the territories of all the participating countries.
According to Merkulov, the necessary measures include reduction of the travel time of trains on this route from the proposed 11 days to 9 days
Ukraine has proposed that Azerbaijan launch a train on the route of the Silk Road in the direction of the Caspian Sea. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Hennadii Zubkov and Azerbaijan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yaqub Eyyubov discussed this issue in Baku.
The Lviv Railways will begin selling tickets for the new Lviv - Ivano-Frankivsk - Lviv regional express train No. 704/703 on 4 December. The train will begin operating on 13 December, using a DPKr-2 diesel train produced by the Kryukov Railcar Building Works.