Tag: rail
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.
The international conference "Eurorail 2015: Innovative Solutions on Rail Transport and the Future of Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU" will take place in Lviv from 19 to 20 November.
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.
A new passenger rail operator will start to work in Germany on March 18 2016. DerSchnellzug (the fast train) company will be specialized on long-distance routes.
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.
Authorities in the Kiev region are discussing the possibility of building a monorail that will connect the capital of Ukraine and Bila Tserkva, which is a major regional administrative center.
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.
Romania is preparing to reconstruct its rail network in Transylvania under EU financing. The reconstruction of the Brasov - Sighisoara railway will begin on this November
The Ministry of Infrastructure has announced the composition of the board of PJSC Ukrainska Zaliznytsia, which was appointed by a decision of the Cabinet of Ministers on 7 October.
I emphasize that auctioning is not privatization.
Ukrzaliznytsia will allow railcars belonging to sanctioned companies to be loaded if goods are intended for Russian Railways stations.
Advisor to the Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Stefan Hofsaess in an exclusive interview to the CFTS portal on the reform of Ukrzaliznytsia, future cargo rail company, the impact of the Association Agreement with the EU on the railway industry and the prospects of Ukraine's transit potential.
The Lvov Railways intends to launch a KVSZ diesel train on the Chernivtsi-Lvov route.
According to him, such an approach will allow liberalization of the market, among other things.
Most of the fixed assets of the Ukrzaliznytsia, primarily railway infrastructure and rolling stock, were not taken into account during the valuation of Ukrzaliznytsia because they were not legally owned by Ukrzaliznytsia’s enterprises.
The CFTS portal has compiled a list of the 10 most profitable state enterprises in the railway industry in the first half of 2015.
Builders have drilled 80% of the length of the upper part of the new dual-track Beskydsky railway tunnel through a mountain pass in the Carpathians.
The Mosquito Mobile project is launching the first three Wi-Fi Internet access zones at Kiev subway stations