JSC Ukrzaliznytsia warns of the delay of 38 trains as a result of Russian rocket attacks and damage to the contact network caused by them, UZ reports on its telegram channel on Monday.
“As of now, 14 trains are moving with a delay of up to 30 minutes; 24 flights with a delay of 30 minutes or more,” the company said.
According to the report, the Kyiv railway station is already open for passengers to enter and exit, and boarding and disembarking of passengers is carried out according to the schedule.
In addition, UZ, in partnership with World Central Kitchen, has prepared supplies of water and food in order to receive passengers of all flights arriving after curfew today at the station overnight.
UZ is ready to advise passengers on all issues through the contact center at 0800 503 111, in chat bots and on official pages on social networks.
Due to the shelling of the railway infrastructure on Monday morning, 19 passenger trains were delayed – 18 long-distance trains and one Intercity +, the head of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) Alexander Kamyshin reports on his Telegram channel.
Intercity+ is already on its way, most of the long-distance trains have already left,” he said.
In addition, as Ukrzaliznytsia JSC reported on its Telegram channel, the following commuter trains are also delayed: No. 6250 Berdychiv-Kazatin (+1:30); No. 6252 Shepetovka-Kazatin (+1:30); No. 6301 Kazatin-Zhmerinka (+ 1:23); №6304 Zhmerinka-Kazatin (+30 min); No. 6343 Zhmerinka-Grechany (+ 1:25); №6342 Grechany-Zhmerynka (+10 min); No. 804/803 Rivne-Lviv (+ 1 hour); No. 816/815 Lviv – Chernivtsi (+1:35); No. 6041 Ternopil-Lviv (+42 min); No. 6042 Lviv-Ternopil (+1:22); No. 6353 Zdolbunov-Kovel (+1:17); No. 6092 Lvov-Zdolbunov (has not departed yet); No. 6093 Zdolbunov-Lviv (hadn’t left yet, more than an hour late); No. 6187 Lviv-Mukacheve (delayed at the Sknilov station +20 min).
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia plans to announce an open international tender for the purchase of rolling stock for the City Express project at the end of September, acting chairman of the board Oleksandr Kamyshin said.
“In February, the president [Volodymyr Zelensky] announced the City Express project in Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukrzaliznytsia has intensified work in this direction. Today we are designing stations, completing a feasibility study of the project and terms of reference for the purchase of rolling stock for the Kyiv hub. In the near future we will send terms of reference for all Ukrainian and international potential participants in the purchase of rolling stock. At the end of September, we plan to announce an open international tender, where we will be glad to see both Stadler and other ready-made suppliers of rolling stock,” he said during the presentation of a five-car electric train Stadler Flirt of the Swiss company Stadler.
Kamyshin said that Stadler Flirt has been tested in Ukraine for a week.
“It is important for us to understand how good the technical and service indicators of this train are. We will be testing it for several more weeks. I think Ukrainians deserve a train of this level,” he said.
According to Stadler Rail Group CEO Peter Spuhler, the company has already sold about 2,000 units of Stadler Flirt.
Stadler Flirt is a family of passenger electric and diesel trains manufactured by the Swiss company Stadler Rail AG. FLIRT is an abbreviation (Flinker Leichter Innovativer Regional-Triebzug – German, translated as a high-speed light innovative regional train). The first train was designed and delivered in 2004. The maximum train speed is 160-200 km/h.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia resumes the sale of railway tickets to Zhytomyr region due to its exit from the “red” zone of anti-epidemic measures, since May 5, passenger trains run throughout the country without restrictions, the press service of the company reports. “On May 5, Wednesday, from 24:01, Zhytomyr region, the last region with existing railway restrictions, leaves the ‘red’ zone of epidemic danger. Now restrictive anti-epidemic measures provided for the ‘yellow’ level, will be applied in the region” the message posted on the official website of Ukrzaliznytsia on Tuesday says.
This decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the State Commission on Environmental Safety, Manmade Disaster and Emergency Response on May 4, on Tuesday.
“Now all trains in the country run in accordance with the schedule, there are no quarantine restrictions on railway traffic now,” the report said.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Kyiv) will provide regular routes of the Metrans transit train in the territory of Ukraine from China to Slovakia. According to the press service of the company, the first container train from the Chinese city of Xi’an to the Slovak city of Dunajska Streda ran through Ukraine on September 27-29. It is formed of 44 forty-foot containers.
It is preliminarily planned that four pairs of container trains will run from China to Slovakia every month. In October 2019 it is planned to send two trains.
Ukrzaliznytsia notes that Metrans reoriented freight traffic along this route from the Polish territory to Ukraine as the route through Ukraine is shorter by 520 km, which saves the sender’s funds.
As reported, in 2018 Ukrzaliznytsia transported 334,963 containers in twenty-foot equivalent (TEU), which is 13% more than in 2017 (295,479 TEU).
PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia in September 2019 has launched three new container trains for grain transportation running on a fixed schedule from Chornomorsk-Port station (Odesa region) to Balin station (Khmelnytsky region), and from Hnivan station (Vinnytsia region) to Starokostyantynivka station (Khmelnytsky region).
This follows from the report of Ukrzaliznytsia press service as quoting company’s head Yevhen Kravtsov as saying on September 24.
The railway operator has already put 27 container trains, of which 22 are regular ones.
“Now Ukrzaliznytsia operates about 150 grain containers used to transport grain cargo from elevators to seaports. The design of these containers allows to unload grain directly onto the vessel, which significantly speeds up the transportation process, and, therefore, reduces its cost,” the press service quotes Kravtsov.
According to him, in general, from the beginning of 2019, 248,280 containers (TEU) were transported, which is 10% more than over the same period in 2018.
Besides, Kravtsov said that since the beginning of 2019, the company launched extra ten container trains, of which four are international ones.
“Such service allows reducing the turnover of rolling stock more than three times and, as a result, helps to reduce the final cost of cargo transportation by 25%,” Ukrzaliznytsia head said.
