Foreign traction. The opinion of investors about the railway market of Ukraine

The volume of investments required for the modernization of the transport of freight and passenger locomotives is about $ 10 billion. This process is long and its implementation plan to carry out until 2020. The world’s leading manufacturers want to divide among themselves the “piece of cake”.

In the western part of Dnepropetrovsk region is located w / d station Pyatikhatki-butt. At this station permanently idle a lot of trucks and passenger cars, here you can see the high-speed “Hyundai” and “Tarpan”, as well as little old green VL82 locomotives. It seems that is located near a major city or a port terminal, but it is not so. Near the station is a small village, which is home to just a couple of hundred inhabitants.

Pile of this technique can be explained very simply: Pyatikhatki station is the butt. This means that it is technical and is intended to wagons can move locomotives via one electrification system to another, i.e. with AC to DC or vice versa.

This example shows that Ukraine needs to purchase multi-system locomotives that can travel across the country, regardless of the line electrification standards. This will speed up the transport of goods. Accordingly, the cost of transportation. The locomotives, which are now used in such plants are outdated. The last such locomotive was released in 1979. And on the w / e the roads of Ukraine is not an exception but a rule.

Foreign investors have long been eyeing the rail market of Ukraine. The company Alstom, which operates in the field of innovative solutions and integrated railway system is interested in cooperation with Ukraine in the railway industry. Leading experts can either upgrade the existing rolling stock and to offer completely new solutions.

Such large companies as Alstom, Bombardier Transportation, GE Transportation, considering Ukraine as a competitive partner on the market capable of rail transport and are ready to cooperate in this field. The question is whether the Government of Ukraine is ready to change legislation to revise the old and create new laws for the development of railway infrastructure. Economically advantageous location Ukraine makes it profitable and promising partner for many large investors, but outdated laws and bureaucracy hinder its development and leave in the distant Soviet past.

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