Ukrzaliznytsia seeks to launch container train from Kyiv to Leipzig

Published June 10, 2019 at 9:56 am

Former Ukrzaliznytsia CEO Yevgen Kravtsov speaks in the railway monopoly’s Kyiv headquarters on Feb. 14, 2018. Kravtsov officially resigned from his post on Jan. 29, after two and a half years at the job, amid bad press over mismanagement and corruption at Ukrzalisnytsia. Ukrzaliznytsia is regularly criticized for its obsolete and non-transparent organization that has allowed corruption to flourish. The dilapidated railway system is in dire need of modernization, experts say, and the government has often said that its modernization is a priority.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Ukrzaliznytsia (Kyiv) is negotiating with IPC Business UG (Leipzig, Germany) on the organization of the regular container train from Kyiv to Leipzig in the coming months, Ukrzaliznytsia Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov said at Transport Logistic 2019 held in Munich (Germany) from June 4 through June 7.

“We are currently negotiating with IPC Business UG, which expressed its readiness to organize the Kyiv-Leipzig regular container train with us in the coming months,” the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia said, citing Kravtsov.

In addition, as the head of Ukrzaliznytsia said, during the exhibition, a number of projects were considered to increase traffic from China to Ukraine, as well as in transit through Ukraine to the EU countries.

According to Kravtsov, in particular, the Chinese Association of CCTA and Chengdu International Railway Service Co., Ltd. confirmed their readiness to organize a train from China to Poland and back using the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route Middle Corridor (TITR) in July 2019.