Keev: Ukraine’s state railway company hopes that the government will soon increase the goods transport tariff, despite the opposition from farmers and steel manufacturers, a senior company official said on Thursday.
Ukrzaliznytsia stated that last year it wanted to increase the freight tariffs 37% to meet fuel, power and equipment growth for equipment repairing the freight tariffs by 37% as it tries to deal with the effects of Russian attacks.
However, agricultural producers stated that the move would increase their transportation cost from $ 3 to $ 6 per metric tons and could cause bankruptcy of some farmers.
A tariff growth is still not approved by the government, expert media outlet rail. Insider quoted the Deputy Chief of Commercial Department in Ukrzaliznytsia, Valerie Tkachev.
“I think there will be an index anyway. But the index size will be decided by the Ministry of Development, the regulator of ukrzaliznytsia,” Tkachev said.
He said that tariffs can be increased from 20% to 40%.
Tkachev also stated that increase will not increase the cost of logistics more than $ 4 per ton and “will not have significant impact on the agriculture sector”.
Ukraine is a major global producer and exporter of metals and agricultural products, which is carried by rail for exports.
