Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov hailed the appointment

writing on Facebook that topping the list of “main tasks for the development of the industry that need to be implemented in the shortest time are raising tariffs for freight transportation, because without market tariffs normal development of Ukrzaliznytsia is impossible.” Serhii Leshchenko, a member of the UZ Supervisory Board, has written in the Kyiv Post that Akhmetov’s iron and steel companies impoverish the railroad by paying rail freight rates well below those of neighboring Poland.