As of August 31, there are 541 cars with grain in the queue, which were loaded back in April. In July the queue of cars with grain decreased by 15% from 11 713 to 9994 cars, with oil — increased by 10% from 777 to 855 cars, with shot — from 651 to 796 cars.
But if in July border crossing points passed 905 thousand tons of grain, in August — only 805 thousand tons. The busiest crossing is Vadul-Siret, from where the cargoes go to the Romanian port of Constanta. Out of 3100 trolleys available in Ukrzaliznytsia, 2436 remain abroad, of them 1250 — on Vadul Siret. There are 1,400 bogies allocated for this crossing under the narrow track, but only 64 bogies for both freight and passenger cars are available.
Ukrzaliznytsia says queues are forming because of foreign carriers who have confirmed carriage but have been unable to accept freight. Therefore, they now take into account how the carrier absorbs cars in their planning, so the queue has decreased to 20,000 cars compared to 43,000 in May.
The situation at road crossings is also disastrous. At the Yagodin border crossing point the queue in the direction of Poland has reached a record 50 km, at other crossing points it exceeds 20 km. The reason is the slow work of Polish phytosanitary and veterinary control services. But for some reason it is not solved at the official level.
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