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“IMC” has increased its railcar fleet by 150 grain carriers for grain transportation

7 March , 2025  

IMC Agro Holding has added 150 grain carriers to its own railcar fleet, which now totals 300 cars, its press service reports.

According to the report, in 2024-2025, IMC invested about $22 million in grain cars.

“This railcar fleet will allow us to largely abandon leased railcars for the transportation of grain to ports,” IMC CEO Oleksandr Verzhykhovsky was quoted as saying in the report.

He added that, according to the agricultural holding, after the commissioning of this fleet, IMC will be able to transport up to 80% of the annual volume of grain grown with its own wagons, providing confidence in the timely execution of the railway component of export logistics and significantly saving on rail transportation.

IMC Agro Holding is an integrated group of companies operating in Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv regions (north and center of Ukraine) in the crop production, elevators and warehouses segments. The Group’s land bank is about 120 thousand hectares and storage capacity is 554 thousand tons, with a harvest of 1.002 million tons in 2023.

In 2023, IMC posted a net loss of $21.03 million compared to $1.12 million a year earlier, and its EBITDA decreased 11.3 times to $3.22 million. Revenue increased by 22.3% to $139.45 million, while the share of exports decreased to 68% from 73% a year earlier.

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