Last May’s opening of the $100 million, double track Beskyd rail tunnel through the Carpathian mountains resulted in an immediate 5% increase in freight traffic

Last May’s opening of the $100 million, double track Beskyd rail tunnel through the Carpathian mountains resulted in an immediate 5% increase in freight traffic on that key line connecting Ukraine with the EU. By ending a bottleneck caused by the 1886 single track tunnel, train speeds increased to 60 km/h and 627 million tons were carried July through September, up 32 million tons from the first quarter, reports Yevhen Kravtsov, acting CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia.