Ukrzaliznytsia is doubling its rail purchases – to 70,000 tons in 2020 – to upgrade 507 km of track next year.

Monday, September 30, 2019
Ukrzaliznytsia is doubling its rail purchases – to 70,000 tons in 2020 – to upgrade 507 km of track next year.

Ukrzaliznytsia is doubling its rail purchases – to 70,000 tons in 2020 – to upgrade 507 km of track next year. Despite this massive purchase, probably from Metinvest’s Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the track only amounts to 2.5% of the state railroad’s massive 20,000 km network. Earlier this year, the railroad closed 1,857 km of track due to poor conditions and low levels of freight. Despite these closures, speed limit warnings have grown by 35% over the last two years, to cover 339 sections of track, reports the Center for Transportation Strategies.

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