Ukrzaliznytsya plans to buy a new grain in 2017

In 2017, "Ukrzaliznitsya" will not buy new hoppery for the transportation of grain, but only updates the fleet of multi-purpose cars and covered gondolas.

this was told by Deputy head of the branch "Center of transport logistics" by A. Miroshnikov during a speech at the conference "export Strategy: trading and logistics-2017".

"the company's Attention will be focused on the purchase of a universal rail wagons and partially covered. Now the rolling stock of Railways consists of 11.5 thousand grain cars. However, due to the ageing of the nearly 800 cars of grain in 2017 over the period of operation", - said A. Miroshnikov.

in the Future, the company plans to increase volumes of transportations of grain by rail due to the shortening of the turnover of cars, and also reducing time for loading and unloading products.

for more by reducing the shortage of rolling stock will be the purchase of rolling stock and cargo owners. Farmers are willing to purchase their own wagons to transport iron private goods provided by the Ukrzaliznytsya 30% discount on the rates.

in addition, the farmers propose to include representatives of agriculture in the composition of the Supervisory Board of the company.

Recall that the President of the Ukrainian grain Association.Klimenko believes that the scheduled July 1 increase of tariffs for rail transportation is unacceptable for the agricultural sector.