On Monday, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) and Polish operator Polskie Koleje Państwowe Spółka Akcyjna (PKP S.A.) signed an agreement on the development of railway communication, the first of its kind since 1994, said Yevhen Lyashchenko, chairman of the board of UZ.
“Together we will continue to develop the border infrastructure and increase passenger and freight traffic between our countries, which will ultimately have a positive effect on our railways and the national economies of Ukraine and Poland,” Lyashchenko said in a press release.
Under the agreement, PKP will work out measures to conclude separate agreements with UZ in the field of railway infrastructure management, freight and passenger rail transportation. The parties will also set up joint working groups to draft individual agreements.
In addition, UZ and PKP have agreed that the transshipment of goods into wagons of a different gauge or the transfer of wagons to bogies of a different gauge will be carried out not only by the receiving carrier at a border station located in its state, but also by the delivering carrier at a border station located in its territory.
At the same time, freight trains in both directions will be serviced by locomotives and locomotive crews of both parties in compliance with the 50/50 parity.
