Transportation by rail from Ukraine to the European Union member states soared by almost seven times in January-March 2017 year-over-year, to 34,500 passengers, according to state-run joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia.
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan says railway transportation market operators' losses after the introduction of a temporary restriction on freight transportation by one of the branches of state-owned joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia, or the Ukrainian Railways, in March due to the lack of electric locomotives have totaled at least $5 million.