Tag: Ukrzaliznytsia
Ukrzaliznytsia does not plan to increase the number of trains to Hungary. The existing Kyiv-Budapest train, which consists of a direct wagon, is only 15 percent full.
The number of passengers on Kyiv-Moscow trains has increased by only 4-5% since the abolition of direct flights between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukrzaliznytsia continues to automate railway level crossings with the aim of improving traffic safety standards and six crossings with bus traffic will be automated before the end of 2015.
PJSC Ukrainska zaliznytsia (UZ) will order a new brand book with the aim of presenting itself as a "new and efficient company with its own brand and a modern identity."
Ukraine is studying the possibility of becoming part of the Trans-Caspian international transport route. This was discussed during the presentation of the capabilities of this corridor in Kiev on 16 November.
Private companies operating in the Yuzhny seaport are expected to be involved in the construction of the new facilities in the terms of public-private partnership.
The Ukrzaliznytsia public joint-stock railway company (PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia) plans to invest about UAH 20 billion in upgrade of rail tracks, railcars, and locomotives in 2016. Minister of Infrastructure Andrii Pyvovarskyi announced this.
Ukrzaliznytsia intends to organize a train ferry service, which will be overseen by the Liski transport service center (part of Ukrzaliznytsia). Ukrzaliznytsia’s acting board chairman Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi announced this.
In an interview with the CFTS portal, Paweł Kopczyński, the head of the rail transport department at the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, and Ireneusz Majcher, an adviser to the Polish Minister of Transport, discuss the reform of Ukrzaliznytsia.
The trains have been idling for 1.5 years, during which each train has not generated about UAH 320 million in revenue from transportation of passengers
The next increase is scheduled for July 2016, and it will depend on the level of inflation in the country
PJSC Ukrainian Railways intends to upgrade its fleet of freight and passenger cars next year.
The Ukrainian Railways public joint-stock company (PJSC Ukrainian Railways) will begin operation on 1 December 2015.
PJSC Ukrainska Zaliznytsia based on the assets of the State Railway Administration of Ukraine was registered on October 21.
Ukrainian and Moldovan railways are planning to implement a project involving construction of a railway between Berezino and Bessarabka (Basarabeasca) and overhaul of the railway between Artsyz and Berezino.
Poland is interested in high-speed rail links between Warsaw and Lvov and between Kiev and Warsaw, Paweł Kopczyński, the head of the rail transport department at the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, said in an interview with the CFTS portal.
It is necessary to build a separate railway line in order to create a normal high-speed rail link between Kiev and Odessa because there is very high freight and passenger train traffic on the existing network.
The PJSC Ukrainska Zaliznytsia, which is currently being created, will purchase freight rolling stock.
The largest tender, which was won by this company, will generate UAH 27.5 million.
Dmitry Chornenky, the head of the Integrated Transport Systems Department at Siemens Ukraine, discusses private locomotive traction in Ukraine and the conditions under which his company will be interested in cooperation with Ukrainian companies.