ODESA – Ukrainian railway infrastructure is not ready to handle growing grain volumes, Director General of TIS Group (Odesa region) Andriy Stavnitser has said.
He told Interfax-Ukraine that due to toughening of weight control on Ukrainian roads the burden on railways in grain transportation would increase. The sector requires investment.
“The most important what can be done is to introduce discounts on route-pegged dispatching, these are space-interval trains. If you gather a whole train of grain at an elevator, you receive a discount on its shipping to the port. For Ukrzaliznytsia this is three times less operations, as the whole train goes directly to the port, and there is no need to form it, re-direct, create a route or do something else. Expenses are smaller,” he said on the sidelines of Grain Ukraine 2016 conference.
As reported, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry called on haulers to observe legislation. The ministry said that trucks weighing more than 40 tonnes would not run Ukrainian roads anymore.
Now legislation permits shipment of cargos of no more than 40 tonnes (curb weight). The additional limits are the following: 44 tonnes for container carriers and 46 tonnes for vehicles running the routes defined by Ukravtodor and Interior Ministry’s divisions.
There are weight limits for axles: 11 tonnes for mono axle, 16 tonnes for double axle and 22 tonnes for triple axle.
