10 Facts About Ukrainian Railways

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Ukrainian Railways is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country.

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Ukrainian Railways is the world's 6th largest rail passenger transporter and world's 7th largest freight transporter.

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In 2015, Ukrainian Railways transformed through a merger of a state agency and a state-owned enterprise into a public joint stock company owned by state.

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4.

Ukrainian Railways Railway has the potential to increase its debt by US$1 billion, indicating a possible Eurobond issue.

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5.

Ukrainian Railways confirmed that Ukrainian Railway is considering a Eurobond issue, on which he can further comment as soon as the government publishes a respective resolution .

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6.

Ukrainian State Railways is the fourth company of the most profitable companies in Ukraine with a revenue of UAH ?74 billion.

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7.

Ukrainian Railways are split into six territorial railway companies: Donetsk, Lviv, Odesa, Southern, South-Western and Near-Dnipro.

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8.

In 2018 Ukrainian Railways purchased 30 General Electric TE33AC Trident freight diesel locomotives.

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9.

Volodymyr Zhmak stated that Ukrainian Railways is initially interested in the purchase of 50 two-system electric freight locomotives.

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10.

Ukrainian Railways suffer from a variety of issues mostly inherited from Soviet times.

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