With the big harvest months approaching, representatives of AgroGeneration, Bunge, and Cargill complained to Minister Omelyan that the state railroad’s new automatic system for distributing grain hopper car has broken down and the system is on ‘manual.’

With the big harvest months approaching, representatives of AgroGeneration, Bunge, and Cargill complained to Minister Omelyan that the state railroad’s new automatic system for distributing grain hopper car has broken down and the system is on ‘manual.’ Speaking to the US-Ukraine Business Council, Omelyan said he was dissatisfied that the 1-year-old system no longer works and that he heard reports of grain traders forced to pay UAH 3,000 per car. The solution, he said, is more grain hoppers, more locomotives, and to experiment with allowing private operators to run freight trains on the 30 percent of the freight routes that historically are the least lucrative.