KYIV. Aug 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian railways in the period from January 1 to August 17, 2015 loaded grain to over 255,000 grain carriers and shipped around 17 million tonnes of grain cargo, the press service of the State Railway Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) has reported.
Ukrzaliznytsia said that in August around 1,300 grain carriers was loaded every day.
Since early 2015, over 230,000 cars with grain (almost 15 million tonnes) were loaded, which is 27% up year-over-year, including 210,700 cars with grain for exports sent to ports (13.8 million tonnes, a rise of 32.6% year-over-year). Grain was almost loaded directly from cars to ships from 6,200 cars (410,900 tonnes, a rise of 52.6%).
Daily grain loading was 1,033 cars (25.2% up).
In 17 days of August railways accelerated grain car turnover by 0.12 days, to 9.72 days.
In August 2015, the grain carrier fleet totaled 13,228 cars, which is enough to ship 2-2.5 million tonnes of grain every month.
