Belarusian Railways has in plan a new container train service from the port of Gdansk (Poland) to the container terminal Kolyadichi (Belarus), as well as from the port of Gdansk via Belarus to CIS countries and China. In order to find out transporter’s interest in the project, as well as to improve
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Belarusian Railways and Russian United Wagon Company (UWC) have announced signing a strategic partnership to service freight cars equipped with Barber bogies in Belarus. As part of this partnership, service facilities for freight cars with improved technical and economic characteristics equipped with Barber bogies have been established at all of Belarusian
Belarusian Railways to implement new technologies in 2015
Belarusian Railways plans to implement a package of measures to create and master science-consuming products and raw materials, automation and mechanization of production processes, provision of new equipment and innovative technologies for its branch facilities. The program is to be fulfilled at expense of organizations and structural subdivisions of Belarusian Railways.
VIKING train transported 44,100 containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2014, an increase of 2.7% compared to previous year. The railway administrations of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Turkey’s BALO (Great Anatolia Logistics Organization) are involved in the intermodal train VIKING project. According to Belarusian Railways, the partners are closely collaborating
Belarusian Railways in cooperation with Talgo specialists installed an automatic gauge changeover system at Brest railway station. The new system will ensure the gauge changeover from 1520 mm to 1435 mm. In the first quarter of 2015, the certification tests of passenger trains and Talgo system will be performed at
China-EU-China rail container traffic via Belarus registered a threefold increased in 2014 compared to previous year, amounting to 40,600 TEU. According to Belarusian Railways, container trains transiting Belarus carry cargo from China to European countries, including Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In 2014, the Belarusian Railways transported 193,100 TEU. Given the global trend of
Belarusian Railways received EUR 160,000 EU funding for International technical assistance project “Improvement of express passenger service between Vilnius and Minsk”, included in the Cross Border Cooperation Programme “Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus” (European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument 2007 – 2013). The partners in this project are Lithuanian Railways and Belarusian Railways and the total value of the
JSC TransContainer announced that the United Transportation and Logistics Company (UTLC) was registered as a legal entity on 13 November 2014. According to Russian Railways’ announcement on 14 November 2014, the share capital of UTLC amounts to RUB 39.7 billion and Russian Railways holds 99.84% of the share capital of
The number of international railway passengers on CIS and Baltic countries railway networks has dropped by 40.5 percent compared to the same period last year, stated Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, during the 61st meeting of the Council for Rail Transport of CIS and Baltic states in Baku. During the first nine
JSC Dorstroymontazhtrest of Belarusian Railways signed a cooperation agreement with Polish Tines Capital Group regarding the construction and modernization of Belarusian railway infrastructure network. The two companies will initiate the production of Edilon LC-L (Level Crossing-Length). Already, a pilot project was carried out last year at a level crossing in Pinsk (Brest region),