On February 19, 2025, a regular meeting of the Export Office (EO) at UZ was held in the premises of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia".
The meeting was attended by the management of the cargo vertical of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" (CD), heads of CTL, CSD and more than 40 representatives of companies, business and industry associations, shippers from various sectors of the Ukrainian economy (participation in the online and offline format)!
Regarding the total volume of cargo transportation:
According to the results of January 2025, 14.005 million tons of cargo were transported by rail (-0.027 million tons or -0.2% compared to the volumes of December 2024).
By type of transport, the following were transported:
domestic transportation - 5.720 million tons (-0.295 million tons or -4.9% compared to December 2024);
export transportation - 7.529 million tons (+0.322 million tons or +4.5% compared to December 2024);
import transportation - 0.74 million tons (-0.045 million tons or -5.8% compared to December 2024);
transit transportation - 0.016 million tons (-0.009 million tons or -37.3% compared to December 2024);
Over the past month, there has been a trend towards a decrease in the volume of cargo transportation by rail due to a decrease in the transportation of building materials and coal.
Regarding the volume of cargo transportation in the export connection:
During January 2025, -7.529 million tons were transported in the export connection by rail (+0.322 million tons or +4.5% compared to the volumes of December 2024)
The reason for the increase in the volume of export transportation by rail is the increase in the transportation of iron ore and grain cargo in January 2025!
Regarding the structure of export transportation of cargo in January 2025 by cargo nomenclature:
In the structure of export transportation of cargo by rail for January 2025,
in first place was iron ore, manganese -3.319 million tons (44.1% share of ore cargo in the total volume of export transportation);
in second place was grain cargo -2.859 million tons (38.0% share in export transportation);
in third place - ferrous metals -0.473 million tons (share of 6.3% in export transportation).
Currently, iron ore and grain cargoes in terms of transportation by rail in the export connection account for 82.1% of the total volume of export transportation!
In January 2025, we have the largest monthly volume of cement transportation for export (in 5 years), compared to the volume of transportation for the same period (in January for the period 2021-2024):
cement - 87 thousand tons tons (+55.3 thousand tons or +174.7% to the volumes of January 2024).
Useful information for shippers, announced at the meeting!
JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" is implementing two pilot projects:
Pilot project #1.#Transportation Routing
The main goal is to increase the percentage of freight transportation routing by rail. As part of the project:
UZ provides the opportunity to accumulate route trains on station tracks for public use for 24 hours for free!
24 hours - free "technological time" for accumulating wagons.
The possibility of increasing the "technological time" to 48 hours is being considered.
Pilot project #2: #SludgeCarsAtStationsUZ
JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" has increased the number of stations where the service with the sludge of empty freight wagons is provided!
In total, the service is already provided at 87 railway stations (previously 71). The approximate capacity of the station tracks is 7,177 conventional wagons!
Currently, almost 44% of the allocated tracks for sludge are already occupied! There are approximately 3,000 thousand wagons in the backlog, of which grain wagons (GW) make up 93%!
The Central Railway Transport Branch of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia continues the contract campaign to sign long-term contracts for the use of the wagon fleet of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia in 2025!
We invite shippers to use the wagons of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia in 2025 and fix the cost of using the wagons now! Please contact the specialists of the Central Railway Transport Branch!
Regarding the indexation of freight transportation tariffs in 2025:
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia has prepared proposals for indexing freight transportation tariffs (by 37%) in 2025; the proposals of the UZ have been sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
currently, the materials provided by the UZ are being processed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and consultations with businesses are underway.
The final decision on indexation is made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs/Ministry of Development after coordination with the Central Executive Authorities and discussions with businesses.
If the tariff proposals of UZ are supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs/Ministry of Development (the draft order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs/Ministry of Development will be announced on the ministry's website for public discussion and approval; the period of public discussion is at least 1 month;
The management of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" is open to dialogue on indexation, the Chairman of the Board of UZ held a number of meetings with major business associations and specialized associations.
Currently, work on agreeing on tariff indexation is ongoing.