By VILNIUS. Dec 29 (Interfax/BNS) – LTG Cargo Ukraine, the Ukrainian division of Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos gelezinkeliai, LTG) for the carriage of goods, and the Polish railway operator PKP Cargo have signed an agreement according to which LTG Cargo Ukraine becomes the operator of cargo transportation between Lithuania and Ukraine through the territory Poland, according to LTG.
It is planned that LTG Cargo Ukraine will carry cargo in larger trains (60 containers each), and a total of 140 trains will run next year. As before, agricultural products – grain and vegetable oil – will be delivered from Ukraine to the port of Klaipeda (Lithuania).
"We will provide control and monitoring of the entire supply chain and plan to carry out transportation 3-4 times a week," Egle Sime, the head of LTG Cargo (the parent company of LTG Cargo Ukraine), said.
LTG Cargo Ukraine is 100% owned by the Lithuanian railway freight company LTG Cargo, which is part of Lietuvos gelezinkeliai and ranks tenth in the European Union in terms of freight traffic. The company started its activities in Ukraine in 2020.
The port of Klaipeda is capable of monthly transshipment of 8-9 million tonnes of agricultural products from Ukraine, in case of solving the problems of railway logistics from this country, the main of which is the mismatch between the parameters of European and Ukrainian rail tracks.
The Polish national carrier PKP S.A. in the fall signed a document with Ukrzaliznytsia on expanding cooperation. The Polish side, in particular, is interested in developing infrastructure on the Polish-Ukrainian border to increase the transportation of food products.
