The Latvian cargo operator has started rail transportation in Estonia
LDZ Cargo, a "subsidiary" of "Latvijas dzelzceļš" (Latvijas dzelzceļš), in January of this year started carrying out freight transportation on the territory of Estonia.
As TTS writes, Rail.insider writes about it with a link to the official website of the Latvian railway company.
"One of the key priorities of the concern Latvijas dzelzceļš in recent years is the diversification of target markets and cargo segments and the increase of freight volumes. Actively working to achieve this goal, the subsidiary LDZ Cargo received the European unified safety certificate for transportation in Estonia, and also concluded an agreement on using the infrastructure with "Estonian Railways" (Eesti Raudtee), carrying out the first cargo transportation on the territory of Estonia," the carrier said.
In Estonia, locomotive drivers must speak Estonian, so the Latvian company has entered into a cooperation agreement with the local railway operator GoRail to use its workers.
Currently, the transportation of edible oil has started. In 2023, it is planned to transport approximately 200,000 tons of this product.
Earlier, TTS reported that the Estonian railway operator Operail signed an agreement to sell its subsidiary Operail Finland to the Finnish logistics company Nurminen Logistics. Thus, two years after entering the Finnish market, Operail decided to stop transportation in this country.
We should also note that at the end of last year, the opinion was voiced that the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine could allow the running of locomotives of carriers from the European Union to the nearest border stations in the middle of Ukraine on the European and broad gauge. This would help to solve the problem of the shortage of rolling stock, and therefore would contribute to speeding up transportation. To which the chairman of the board of "Ukrzaliznytsia" stated that he does not see the need for the admission of locomotives of European carriers to the UZ network. According to Oleksandr Kamyshin, his company handles volumes of cross-border transportation.