A second private company has won permission to run freight trains on the tracks of Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railroad

A second private company has won permission to run freight trains on the tracks of Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railroad. Promvagontrans LLC was won permission to run freight trains on four routes in central Ukraine. The owner of 400 grain hopper cars, Promvagontrans is a unit of Ukrainian Agrarian Holding. In December, the first agreement was signed with Ukrainian Locomotive Company, a Lviv company. It can haul freight on 10 routes largely in Western Ukraine. This pilot program is expected to run for two years.