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LTG Cargo Ukraine has become freight operator between Lithuania and Ukraine

LTG Cargo Ukraine, a subsidiary of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LTG) Group’s freight company LTG Cargo, and Polish freight company PKP Cargo have signed a cooperation agreement. After signing this agreement LTG Cargo Ukraine has become freight operator between Lithuania and Ukraine via Poland. The first train operated by LTG Cargo Ukraine has already arrived in Ukraine from Lithuania.
It is planned that 140 trains of LTG Cargo Ukraine will travel between the two countries next year. Larger wagon sets including 60 containers will be used to carry goods. The same as until now, agricultural products (grain and food oil) will be transported from Ukraine to the Klaipėda seaport.

“The launch of cooperation with the Polish company PKP Cargo is about ensuring the smooth movement of goods between the three countries. In the recent half-year, we have gained a better understanding of the Ukrainian rail market and pooled the competencies necessary to deal with the complicated international freight transportation by rail. LTG Cargo Ukraine that has become freight operator between Lithuania and Ukraine is now entering a new phase of its activity: from now on, clients will receive one-stop services from one operator. We will control and monitor the entire logistics chain and shipments are planned to take place 3–4 times a week” says E. Šimė.

TG Cargo Ukraine in Ukraine will focus on organising the freight transportation service as a whole: freight carriage, formation of the fleet of wagons for both the European track gauge and wide-gauge, customs declarations, transhipment services, and freight forwarding. The Polish company PKP Cargo will carry out transportation of goods via Poland. Agricultural produce shipments by rail will pass through two border crossing points between Poland and Ukraine: Mostyska–Medyka and Yagodin–Dorohusk stations.

Meanwhile, LTG Cargo’s Polish subsidiary LTG Cargo Polska will continue to focus on Poland’s domestic freight transportation as well as on intermodal freight transport services running between Lithuania and Germany via Poland.

By December, around 73,000 tons of agricultural products have already been transported from Ukraine to Lithuania via Poland, and another 104,000 tons of oil and its products have been transported by rail from Lithuania to Ukraine.