photo: ÖBB Rail Cargo Group/ÖBB RCG keeps helping Ukraine: How's the company increasing its share in the Ukrainian export-import rail freight transport?
The Austrian railway company, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group, has recently held talks with the Ukrainian State Railway Company, Ukrzaliznytsia, to boost the transport of Ukrainian goods.
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They have agreed to intensify their cooperation, take measures to accelerate the forwarding of Ukrainian goods and set up a permanent bilateral working group to increase the transport of goods. The parties also discussed extending the already existing cooperation agreement on the data exchange and migrating the planning system for transport volumes to a single electronic platform. These measures will facilitate a scheduled transfer of goods in transit, enabling adjustment of the volume to the current free reloading capacities and utilizing border crossing points more efficiently.
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To date, Rail Cargo Group has facilitated the transport of 430,000 tons of grain from Ukraine via the Hungarian, Slovakian and Polish border crossing points by utilizing a major part of its grain wagon fleet and ensuring the necessary rail freight capacity for the transport of consignments. ÖBB is continuously developing innovative technological and alternative transport solutions in order to increase the efficiency and volume of its rail freight forwarding capacity.
Furthermore, the company is providing assistance to Ukrainian citizens in need, as it provides free transportation of refugees and has forwarded relief consignments to Ukraine free of charge transporting donations that arrived in Záhony by trucks to Csop in the first half of 2022. At the end of August, the company delivered also personal protective equipment – boots, helmets, visibility vests and gloves – for Ukrainian railway workers, and a package of technical equipment, utility items and textiles for the Catholic Charity Organization of Transcarpathia.
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Delegations of RCG and Ukrzaliznytsia praised the experience gained through the cooperation and agreed to exploit jointly the opportunities identified in the meeting.
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