Development and Future Prospects of

Cargo Transportation by Viking Intermodal

Freight Train

Route Description and Operators of Viking Intermodal Freight Train

Time in transit: 63.5 hours

Across Ukraine: 23 hours

Across Belarus: 22.7 hours

Across Lithuania: 16 hours

Transport operators:

On Ukrainian railroads:

Liski Ukrainian State Center of Transport Service (National

Company), Plaske JSC

On Belarusian railroads:

BELINTERTRANS National Company

On Lithuanian railroads: Lithuanian Railways JSC – LG Forwarding

Department

Route length: 1,766 km

Route lengh by country:

Ukraine: 778 km

Belarus: 554 km

Lithuania: 434 km

Price of container transportation by Viking Intermodal Freight Train

The prices of transit container transportation

from the Port of Odesa to Klaipėda are as

follows:

20 ft

Loaded: USD 502

Empty: USD 233

40 ft

Loaded: USD 818

Empty: USD 386

Starting from 2012, the Ukrainian railway

operator introduced a 20% discount on the

current rates for export and import container

transportation

Volume of container transportation by Viking train over 10 years

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Volume of container transportation by Viking train

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Lithuania – Belarus – Lithuania

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The Ukrainian party is working to increase the efficiency of Viking Intermodal Freight Train.

• A new train composition technique has been developed and implemented.

• The train runs twice a week: • from Odesa region on Mondays and Thursdays,

• from Koziatin on Tuesdays and Fridays.

According to the new technique, The Odesa region stations compose the train independently, combining the car groups in case of

insufficient volume.

The Ukrainian railroad stations direct the export and import freight containers to Koziatin station to combine car groups and send them to Korosten station.

Koziatin station of the South-Western Railroad:

• for the train going from Odesa to Klaipėda, combines the car groups arriving from the Odesa region stations and Ukrainian railroads with export and import cargo, and sends the train to Korosten station.

• for the train going from Klaipėda to Odesa, breaks up the car groups going to the Odesa region stations and Ukrainian railroads with export and import cargo, and sends them according to the scheduled destination.

To increase the speed of technical operations at the border, including the customs formalities, Liski Ukrainian State Center of Transport Service provides the cargo information in electronic form to Korosten transfer station at least 4 hours before the arrival of the train.

The technical operations and customs formalities at Korosten station are completed within the time frame of the train schedule.

Koziatin

Korosten

Port Yuzhnyi

Illichivsk

Viking Intermodal Freight Train Departure Process

Zhmerynka

Port of Odesa

Berezhest

Izov

Mohyliv-

Podilskyi

Vadul Siret

The development of Viking Intermodal Freight Train project continues.

Extending the route towards Turkey, Bulgaria, and Georgia, with further

prospects of reaching Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan through the Caspian

Sea, will allow increasing the freight traffic and train frequency.

Thank you for your attention!