The Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia has signed an agreement with the Austrian Rail Cargo Group (RCG) with the aim of develop intermodal transport between Ukraine and Austria. "We continue - explained Viacheslav Yeromin, councilor of administration of Ukrzaliznytsia - to develop services Intermodal and the integration of Ukrainian railways into space European. With this memorandum we begin to work on the realization of the intermodal transport project among our Developing countries. We are currently evaluating the possibility of establish a regular rail link of this type between Kiev and Vienna and we are considering a line through Lviv and Budapest to include as many as possible in the project Great cities possible».

The agreement, which also covers the possibility of transport cereals from Ukraine to European markets, provides that Ukrzaliznytsia supplies traction rolling stock and wagons broad-gauge and service railways terminals and customs formalities in Ukraine, while RCG will take over operations on the ground of the European Union. According to forecasts, the activity will be launched by the end of this year with the Experimentation of the transport of semi-trailers on the line Kiev-Budapest.