9 November 2020, 11:48, Grain

Top 15 grain-hopper railcars owners in Ukraine

As of mid-October 2020, grain-hopper railcars fleet in Ukraine comprised 25.4 thou. units, of which 70% were built before 2010, Biz.censor.net writes.

Almost half of the rolling stock is owned by Ukrzaliznytsia —11 481 grain-hopper railcars, 45%.

The 15 largest companies by grain-hopper railcars fleet number are featured in the table below.

Company Grain-hopper railcars number Owner
1. Ukrzaliznytsia
11 481
State
2. Kernel 
2 852
3. Smart Rail Logistics
2 158
Alexey Migulin
881
OTP Group
5. MTC
705
Vyacheslav Shmichkov, Maria Lekontseva
6. Dneprovagonmash
661
583
Vladimir Prikhodko, Stanislav Gamzalov
8. UGL
549
Burger Johannes Michael, Kunig Mario Alexander (Australia) 
9. Ukrtransleasing
497
Rinat Akhmetov
476
Sergei Tigipko
11. Cargis
425
Dmytro Motuzko
12. AP MARIN
400
NCH 
13. Tegra Logistics
310
14. Promvagontrans
300
15. Kreyserska Speed
300
Oleg Radchenko, Vasily Gladkikh, Dmitry Prokopenko, Gennady Davidyan

Previously Andrei Verevskiy stated that last year investment in grain railcars allowed Kernel to save USD 38 mln on transportation costs, which fully justifies this investment in the railcar business.