Tag: Ukrzaliznytsia
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.
Acting General Director of the State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi discusses corruption, lustration, his ambitions, cargoes, tariffs, buses, and other issues at his first ever press conference.
According to the Ukrainian High-Speed Train Company, the high-speed train route with the lowest number of passengers in the second quarter of 2015 was the Kiev-Krivoy Rog-Kiev route.
According to data from the Ukrainian High-Speed Train Company, the busiest high-speed train route in the second quarter of 2015 was the Kiev-Kharkov-Kiev route.
Ukrzaliznytsia’s financial plan was approved at a meeting of the government committee on infrastructure development and environmental policy.
The Ukrainian side also proposed increasing the authorized number of flights between the two countries.
Railways loaded about 213,000 grain cars, in which they transported 13.5 million tons of grain and its byproducts (cake, meal), in the period of January-June 2015, an increase of 17% or 2 million tons compared with the corresponding period of 2014.
The acting general director of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi considers it necessary to increase freight transport tariffs.
Ukrzaliznytsia intends to replace trains with passenger buses on the most unprofitable routes, Ukrzaliznytsia’s acting head Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi has announced
Ukrzaliznytsia has reached agreement in principle with the railway industry’s main creditors on restructuring about UAH 17 billion of domestic debt, which constitutes about 82% of the total domestic debt
Infrastructure Minister Andrii Pyvovarskyi presented Zavhorodnyi at Ukrzaliznytsia’s main administrative office in Kiev.
The Intertelecom company (Odessa) won the competition to provide broadband Internet access on Intercity and Intercity+ high-speed trains on 23 June.
SOCAR will participate in the tender for supply of fuel to Ukrzaliznytsia if the tender is as transparent as the last one, which was won by the OKKO company.
Ukrzaliznytsia has prepared grain carriers and freight stations for transportation of grain. Currently, railways are ready to transport at least 3 million tons of grain and grain crops per month.
The restructuring of the domestic debt of the State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) will be completed before the end of the summer.
The situation involving supply of diesel fuel has been resolved, 4,000 tons of diesel fuel will be delivered in the coming days, and shipments have already begun.
Ukrzaliznytsia is exploring the possibility of replacing trains with rail buses, which will be co-financed with local authorities, on unprofitable train routes.
The assets of Ukrzaliznytsia that remain in the annexed Crimea and the parts of the Donbas that are not controlled by Ukraine will be included in the authorized capital of Ukrainska Zaliznytsia
The draft law on railways that was published for debate includes several revolutionary aspects. For example, it provides for creation of private locomotive traction and equal access to infrastructure. This is because of the need for the law to meet the standards of the European Union.
A group of experts created the new organizational structure and charter of Ukrzaliznytsia based on the European experience and directives of the European Union.