Ukrzaliznytsia banned the entry of foreign empty grain through surplus of their own

uz with 21 June declared a conventional ban on the entry of empty wagons owned by private entities of other States, to any recipient in Ukraine, in particular, grain, cement trucks and boxcars, arguing that the surplus fleet of own cars. When the loaded foreign cars can freely enter Ukraine and to export goods of domestic producers. For export of goods it is recommended to draw the empty cars to domestic property owners, including Railways.

it is Planned that the Convention will be valid until Ukraine will increase the volume of traffic so that it would need foreign empty rolling stock.

Such a ban UZ introduces for the first time. In the autumn of 2019, there is a Convention on entry of empty gondolas.

a Major supplier of rolling stock for transportation in areas with a track width of 1520 mm is Russia, which is also experiencing a surplus of cars.

Senders of goods over long July contracts booked for transportation by rail 2600 or 80% of grain and 900 or 10% of the total gondola Park 3300 8800 hoppers and gondolas BONDS allocated for this project, reports tstl BONDS.

Kazakhstan from 15 June banned the entry of foreign empty gondolas, including Russian, due to the considerable accumulation of foreign wagons on the network of the CCC.

Polish state company PKP 16 Jun allowed to create a subsidiary company PKP LHS - PKP Linia Chełmska Szerokotorowa, which will provide transportation to the area of the Ukrainian-Polish border. She will lead shirokogorloy rail over 395 km, stretches from the border with Ukraine (hrubieszów) to Slavkov. Railway crossings on the Eastern border of Poland are third on the volume concentration of the cargo after Silesia and sea ports, so the development of this area will significantly increase traffic in the Eastern direction.

the Shortage of grain in Ukraine in the last two years has led to an increase in the cost of rail transportation and forced exporters to bring cars from Belarus and Poland for the transportation of grain and oil cargoes to these countries. But in 2020 the market perenasytil domestic grain, and the volume of traffic has fallen, so prices on them are actively reduced and profitability dropped to the lowest level.