Transport in Ukraine includes ground transportation, water, air transportation, and pipelines. The transportation sector accounts for roughly 11% of the country's gross domestic product and 7% of total employment.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America. Amtrak and some regional commuter railroads are also members. Smaller freight railroads are typically represented by the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), although some smaller railroads and railroad holding companies are also members of the AAR. The AAR also has two associate programs, and most associates are suppliers to the railroad industry.
Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian billionaire and businessman. He is the founder and president of System Capital Management (SCM), and is the wealthiest man in Ukraine. As of April 2023, he was listed as the 460th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.7 billion.
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
Ukrainian Railways is a state-owned joint-stock company administering railway infrastructure and rail transport in Ukraine; a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. Ukrainian Railways is the world's 6th largest rail passenger transporter and world's 7th largest freight transporter. As of 2020, the total length of the main broad-gauge railroad network was 19,787 kilometres (12,295 mi), making it the 13th largest in the world. Ukraine also has many stretches of standard-gauge railway (1,435 mm), and is currently working to expand these in order to improve its connections to the European Union.
System Capital Management or SCM is a major Ukrainian financial and industrial holding company established in 2000 in Donetsk, Ukraine. As of 2014, it is headquartered in Kyiv. The business is controlled by Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who owns 100% of the company's shares. In 2011, the group had revenues of around $19.5 billion and assets worth over $28.4 billion.
PKP Cargo is a logistics operator and a part of the PKP Group in Poland. It is the largest railway freight carrier in Poland and second largest in the European Union. PKP Cargo is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The company's largest shareholder is PKP S.A. with a 33,01% share.
DB Cargo Polska is a Polish company operating mainly in rail freight transportation. It is presently owned by the German state railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB).
Russian Railways is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services.
Rail transport in Ukraine is a mode of transport by railway in Ukraine. Most railway infrastructure transport in Ukraine is owned by the government of Ukraine through Ukrzaliznytsia, which has a country-wide monopoly on passenger and freight transport by rail. Part of the rail network in eastern Ukraine was privatized in the late 1990s, creating the biggest private railway company in the country, Lemtrans, which focuses on freight transport.
Volnovakha is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Volnovakha Raion within the oblast. As of January 2022, it had a population of 21,166.
CJSC Transmashholding is the largest manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment in Russia and after merging with LocoTech service the fourth largest engineering company in the field of transport technology globally.
Metinvest is an international group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US, mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products. The group's assets are managed by Metinvest Holding LLC.
Tver Carriage Works is a rolling stock manufacturer located in Tver, Russia. The company is part of Transmashholding.
The Košice–Vienna broad-gauge line is an international project to extend the 1,520 mmRussian gauge (broad-gauge) railway line from the city of Košice in eastern Slovakia to Vienna and Bratislava. It will result in the creation of an 8,000-kilometre (5,000-mile) rail transport corridor linking Western Europe and China.
The Crimea Railway is a railroad located in Crimea, providing passenger and freight services to Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea.
AS Operail is a railway logistics company located in Tallinn, Estonia. Its sole shareholder is the Government of Estonia.
Novotrans Group of Companies is a Russian transportation holding involved in railway cargo operations, carriage maintenance, infrastructure projects, stevedoring, seaport operations. This is one of the largest private operators of rolling stock in Russian Federation and CIS countries with main focus on transportation of coal, gravel, timber, steel products and construction cargo. The holding comprises 24 companies in various regions of Russia and CIS. It is headed by the President Konstantin Goncharov.
