Each ton of iron ore “is transported with a 19% loss for Ukrzaliznytsia,

” Sergii Leshchenko, another UZ board member, (Kyiv Post). Once an UZ freight train carrying iron crosses into Poland or Slovakia, “the tariff for ore transportation increases,” he wrote. “In Poland, it increases 2.5 times. In Slovakia — more than four times.” Blaming Rinat Akhmetov’s metal companies for lobbying for low tarrifs, he concluded that UZ loses $288 million “annually due to unfairly low tariffs for iron ore transportation.”