Ukrzaliznytsya is launching a weekly, 1,400 km, east-west container train from Dniproetrovsk to Sławków, Poland.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Ukrzaliznytsya is launching a weekly, 1,400 km, east-west container train from Dniproetrovsk to Sławków, Poland. The freight train takes advantage of Poland’s longest broad gauge track, a 1970s-era line that reaches 400 km into southern Poland to Sławków, 50 km west of Kraków. In Nizhnedneprovsk, the train will collect containers from Ukraine’s eastern industrial cities of Zaporizhia, Mariupol, and Nikopol. The train will cut travel time in half, to 40 hours, says Yevhen Kravtsov, chairman of Ukraine’s state railroad. The line is the railroad’s 19th container train, a fast-growing service.