Centre for Transport Strategies

23/05/2022

"Previously, the barges were idling without documents, but we have managed to put them into operation and put them under the Ukrainian flag in a fairly short time through joint efforts with the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure," UDP’s acting Director Dmytro Moskalenko said.

In addition, 13 barges are in the process of obtaining their ship's papers.

21/05/2022

Work is being done 24/7 to create "green corridors" for exporting grain, as well as to simplify and speed up inspections at Ukraine’s borders with the EU.

20/05/2022

DB Cargo has launched a mechanism that will help transport large quantities of agricultural products to ports in the North Sea and the Adriatic.

18/05/2022

In early May, the Rail Cargo Group, which is part of the Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB), delivered the first train with Ukrainian grain to Austria. As part of the organized "Green Corridor", a cargo of fodder corn arrived to Upper Austria. The ÖBB management says that in this way they are making their contribution to the Ukrainian agricultural products export at the time of the war. Future plans include at least two monthly grain deliveries from Ukraine to Austria. Each train will have 25 wagons with a capacity of 1,400 tons of cargo.

In a flash interview with for the CFTS ÖBB representatives spoke on the route of the first grain train, the rolling stock provided, and other Ukrainian goods the company transports.

How ÖBB delivers grain from Ukraine and what cargoes can go in the opposite direction.

12/05/2022

Eurocar, the official distributor of Skoda cars in Ukraine, announced the resumption of orders and production.
Its plant in Transcarpathia, in Solomonovo, will start working again in June.

12/05/2022

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warns countries of the world against buying stolen Ukrainian grain from Russia
The invaders have already stolen about 500,000 tons of grain from Ukraine, and almost all ships leaving Sevastopol with grain are carrying stolen Ukrainian products.
The shipments of grain sold by the Russian Federation may contain partly or completely the Ukrainian harvest stolen by the Russian occupation authorities.
The theft of Ukrainian grain by Russia is confirmed by both numerous testimonies of Ukrainian farmers and documentary evidences.
"We call on the international community to tighten economic sanctions in order to stop Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and worsen the situation with food security in the world," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

11/05/2022

Ukraine and Poland have agreed to improve logistics capabilities at the border - it was negotiated by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov and the Minister of Infrastructure and Development of Poland Andrzej Adamczyk. The meeting took place on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
"We have agreed to establish a joint venture to intensify rail transportation," Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.
He added that significant progress had also been made in the road transport liberalisation. “In particular, I am grateful to my Polish colleagues for canceling permits for a road carriers transporting fuel to Ukraine. We continue to work together to strengthen the transport isolation of Russia and Belarus. We have a common understanding that in this way Russia will lose financial resources to continue the war,” summed up is he.

11/05/2022

Russia sent ships with stolen Ukrainian grain to the Mediterranean Sea
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate (MID) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Russian invaders continue exporting food stolen in Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation and the occupied Crimea. In addition, the Russians are trying to sell the stolen Ukrainian grain in the Middle East.
As the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports, it is known that now "a significant part of the grain stolen from Ukraine is on bulk ships under the Russian flag in the Mediterranean Sea. The most likely destination for the cargo is Syria. From there, grain can be smuggled to other countries in the Middle East".
In addition, the MID informs that in Pology (Zaporizhzhia region), grain and sunflower seeds, which are in storage, are being prepared for transportation to the Russian Federation.

10/05/2022

The United States has abolished duties on Ukrainian steel and steel products, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said.
"We are talking about stopping the operation of 25% of the duties imposed in 2018 by the Trump administration. The abolition of these duties will be a turning point in trade relations between Ukraine and the United States," Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko said.
It is noted that Washington canceled duties on Ukrainian steel and products from it for 1 year.

10/05/2022

Russian invaders launched a missile attack on a previously damaged bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odessa region.
This was reported by the Operational Command "South".
"A cruise missile was again directed at the Odessa region. The enemy continues attacks on the already damaged bridge across the Dniester estuary," the message says.
Recall that the bridge across the Dniester Estuary is of great importance for the export of Ukrainian food through the ports on the Danube River.

09/05/2022

Canada, following the UK and the EU, is canceling all duties on imports from Ukraine for 12 months. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced it after the meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday.

04/05/2022

On Tuesday, Russia launched missile strikes on 6 railway infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. On the evening of May 3, as a result of missile strikes inflicted by the troops of the Russian Federation, the railway infrastructure was damaged in several regions of Ukraine. In particular, the head of the Dolynska territorial community of the Kirovohrad region, where a large railway junction is located, reported about the missile hit. Also, as the chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, said, two "arrivals" were recorded in the Kamianskyi district. In addition, for the first time since the start of a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Russia launched a missile attack on the territory of the Zakarpattia oblast - the westernmost region of Ukraine. The missile hit the railway substation at the station of Volovets town. Ukrzaliznytsia reports a number of passenger train delays.

03/05/2022

In the ports of the Danube, grain transshipment has risen in price four times in a month
In Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, the cost of grain cargo transshipment, which was not in high demand before the Russian military invasion and was about $5-6 per ton, has increased to $15 per ton in Aprli due to the blockade of key Ukrainian seaports and will continue to rise in price. As of May, the cost of transshipment is already estimated at 20 euros per ton.
“I won’t talk about the businessmen who profit from this, but in a few days there will definitely be names. The state gets practically nothing from this. I understand about earnings. But a fourfold increase is no longer a market, but a blackmail,” - says Vadim Denisenko, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

29/04/2022

Ukraine's railway infrastructure and rolling stock losses amounted to $3.6 billion since the beginning of the war.
Over the past week, direct losses to the Ukrainian economy due to destruction and damage to civilian and military infrastructure have increased by $3.1 billion.

29/04/2022

The first Panamax with Ukrainian export grain was loaded in the port of Constanta.
In the Romanian port of Constanta, 71 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn were loaded onto a ship flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. This is the first Panamax-class ship with Ukrainian grain to go to sea after the start of the war.
About 80,000 tons of Ukrainian grain have already been sent to Constanta, and the same amount is on the way to the Romanian port.
Other raw materials from Ukraine are also exported through Romania. E.g. about 35,000 tons of iron ore were loaded in the port this week.

28/04/2022

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger called for the permanent abolition of import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the EU.

"We welcome and support today's proposal by Valdis Dombrovskis to reduce tariffs on imports from Ukraine to the EU to zero for one year. This is one of the elements of the Slovak Plan for Ukraine, which I shared at the Versailles summit. However, not for 1 year, but forever," - wrote Heger on Twitter.

28/04/2022

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation, deputies of the legislative assembly decided on the illegal seizure and export of agricultural products from the occupied territories of the Kherson region.

“Since there is only one cucumber production plant in the region, and the lack of other vegetables and grain crops as a result of the introduction of foreign sanctions is felt acutely not only in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, but everywhere at the federal level, the expropriation of the surpluses of last year’s and this year’s harvest from farmers in the Kherson region will become one among the tools to provide assistance to small businesses, consumer cooperatives," the decision of the Legislative Assembly says.

The occupiers also said that "similar experience will be able to successfully implement in the future."

On the picture: Russians steeling grain from the granary in the Berdiansk port (Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine)

15/04/2022

The volume of container handling in Russia’s Baltic Sea ports fell by 44%.

15/04/2022

The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the information.

15/04/2022

Concerns about the logistical restrictions on this enclave have previously been expressed in Russia.

14/04/2022

The transportation and logistics center in Odesa region is located next to three operational ports.

The Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi transportation and logistics center is located next to three operational ports.

13/04/2022

Between 25,000 and 30,000 Ukrainians are returning to Ukraine per day.

13/04/2022

The problematic issues include bureaucratic procedures on the Ukrainian side.

13/04/2022

The airport terminal building is almost completely destroyed.

The airport building is almost completely destroyed.

12/04/2022

The exceptions in the sanctions package leave an opportunity for big businesses in the EU to restore their normal economic ties with Russia.

12/04/2022

An attack on the Qatari company’s terminal in the Mykolaiv region has been reported.

11/04/2022

It also proposes banning Russian ships from entering EU ports and territorial waters.

08/04/2022

A Lend-Lease program was last implemented during World War II.

08/04/2022

BREAKING NEWS
Russian armed forces attacked the railway station in the Eastern Ukraine which was full of people waiting for an evacuation

At least 30 people were killed at the railway station of Kramatorsk.

07/04/2022

Poland is working on the creation of a dry port on its border with Ukraine to increase the throughput for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products.

The notifications process for export cargoes was also discussed with the aim of speeding up border procedures and transportation.

07/04/2022

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is not ruling out the possibility of Russia using the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic to support its offensive operations in the Southern Buh direction.

07/04/2022

The 9th European Rolling Stock Forum to take place on the 19th of May 2022 in Warsaw

https://en.cfts.org.ua/news/the_9th_european_rolling_stock_forum_to_take_place_on_the_19th_of_may_2022_in_warsaw

06/04/2022

According to the infrastructure minister, Ukrposhta lost more than UAH 500 million in revenue during the first month of the war.

06/04/2022

One crew member was injured.

05/04/2022

Closure of seaports to Russian tankers will be an indirect embargo on oil purchases from the aggressor country.