Ukraine’s Grain Export Crisis: Why Railways Struggled?

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @vj.joseph
    @vj.joseph 16 днів тому +19

    Once again, Thank you so much for sharing all the knowledge about railways. I LOVE railways and trains.❤

  • @logy7
    @logy7 15 днів тому +7

    Love the Saskatchewan grain cars on the thumbnail! 😊

  • @chrislaarman7532
    @chrislaarman7532 15 днів тому +14

    Actually, gauge isn't the only problem. A difference in coupling is another. These two have been "solved" decades ago when there were through carriages between Amsterdam (NL) and Moscow (RU). The bogies would be exchanged at Brest (BY), and apparently some coupling adapter was used.
    Nowadays, Spain (broadgauge, but at least some high-speed lines standard gauge) features train sets that can change gauge without even stopping. As high-speed trains tend to be passengers-only multiple units, coupling isn't that much of an issue there, but it would be when regarding freight.
    In itself, the standard-gauge railways of Europe (the continent) are supposed to change to a "Digital Automatic Coupling" currently in testing.
    I take the real problem to be the "loading gauge": the "virtual tunnel" that a train is able to pass through. (I think you said so.) :-)
    The hopper cars from Ukraine would be too big for the standard-gauge network, and not enough standard-gauge ones would be available for this additional traffic.
    Besides, having enough locomotives, drivers and "time slots" may well be additional problems on the standard-gauge network.
    On the agricultural Dutch channel "Nieuwe Oogst", farmer Kees Huizinga weekly vlogs from central Ukraine. He "recently" mentioned that his crops get trucked to Odesa, then loaded onto ships.

  • @alberthartl8885
    @alberthartl8885 15 днів тому +20

    The increase in standard gauge tracks can not happen fast enough. It is critical for Ukrainian integration with Europe.

  • @radiosnail
    @radiosnail 15 днів тому +4

    Extremely interesting. I had not realised Ukraine was planning to construct some Standard Gauge lines. I did wonder how much of a problem the differing gauges would be for freight exports.

  • @yuriydee
    @yuriydee 13 днів тому +1

    Thanks for the video. I am from the part of Ukraine that borders Slovakia and Hungary and really hope that we one day we get proper standard gauge rail that connects us to the rest of Europe.

  • @paulphotios3920
    @paulphotios3920 13 днів тому

    Thank you ffor the history lesson.

  • @passatboi
    @passatboi 15 днів тому +3

    The video thumbnail image is of a Canadian grain hopper car though ;)

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 5 днів тому +1

    Ukraine is an agriculture beast.
    Whats so impressive is how most of the nations imports and exports had to be redirected to rail.... TRAINS OF HOPE.... Military worldwide train relentlessly so if a war happens they are ready but economies don't because things like this are never foreseen and economist wouldn't waste money to prepair for a situation like this fictional. THE LOGISTICS must have been crazy to trasition so quickly, and really tested and showed many were readyness was in regards to shifting whole regions of logistic routes. Only saying that because I have already heard that Europe raillines are already at capacity, so adding Ukraine exports and imports to the lines must have meant dozen of European nations having to shift the way their own goods work. At the end of the day it is a great way to see how flexible your work force can be in case of emergency.

  • @cte4dota
    @cte4dota 15 днів тому +7

    They are lucky Russians does not target rail infrastructure that much, mostly those close to frontlines. If they just destroy bridges what they could it's over for rail transportation in Ukraine.

    • @pettylein
      @pettylein 15 днів тому

      That's not true. It is just secret information that isn't published. The attacking of oil depots, substations, power plants affects the railway massively. It's just, hitting railways directly isn't smart, because they can be repaired simply.

    • @danielhutchinson6604
      @danielhutchinson6604 15 днів тому +1

      The 1500 electric locomotives Ukraine had in 2014 , seem to be stopped by Power Sources being eliminated.
      Kiev bought around 30 GE Diesel locomotives in 2018.
      The Polish Farmers are objecting to Grain being exchanged for fuel.
      The G-7 Nations appear to be having a problem getting superiority over Russia.
      Apparently Putin noticed the New American Century talk 30 years ago and prepared?

    • @pettylein
      @pettylein 14 днів тому

      @@danielhutchinson6604 There is a lot of bullshit in your comment. First, the Electric locomotives are still around. Many have been destroyed or are in occupied territory. But the most important routes are served by electric locomotives. The Diesel electric locomotives are used for freight transport on non-electrified routes. Ukraine has only 40% of its network electrified (and these are split by 2 different systems 25 kV AC, and 3 kV DC - this is also why they have so many locomotives, they have to switch them on the system frontiers).
      Polish farmers don't block the rail transport and currently, they don't block much of the road transport.
      P.S. It's Kyiv, not Kiev. Kiev is russian, Kyiv is Ukrainian.

  • @jermainetrainallen6416
    @jermainetrainallen6416 2 дні тому

    Great vid. Good to hear that Ukrainian railways are being better integrated with the rest of the European network

  • @alx9r
    @alx9r 14 днів тому

    This video did not appear in my subscriptions tab until just now. But I had to scroll past about 50 newer I had previously scrolled through videos to find it. If you had not posted your question about it, I would have never seen it. This is a systematic pattern I have observed over the past month. Yours is probably the fifth such example I have seen.

  • @eliasdaw5302
    @eliasdaw5302 15 днів тому +4

    Cover Riyadh metro next

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer 14 днів тому

    You may want ro make a video about Soviet rail military units created in the late 1930s and deployed to the Soviet western border in the early 1941. They were meant to change European standard gauge to broad gauge after the Soviet invasion of Europe would occur on July 6, 1941. Hitler attacked the USSR two weeks earlier and thwarted the imminent Soviet invasion.

  • @christophe8723
    @christophe8723 15 днів тому +2

    There is a track at the 1520mm gauge going from Ukrainian border all the way to Katowice in central Poland, the transfers can be done much further in Poland instead of the przemysl area.

    • @johnblair8146
      @johnblair8146 15 днів тому +2

      It is critical that ALL Russian Gauge (1,520mm) track is regauged to 1,435 mm as soon as practicable. Western designed hopper wagons offer 100 short tons of capacity and the use of standard. Gauge will integrate Ukraine with Europe and will strengthen Ukraine.

  • @ОлександрКотловий
    @ОлександрКотловий 15 днів тому +14

    Thank you for video!
    But CRIMEA peninsula IS UKRAINE! 🇺🇦

  • @kulteginmakishev7448
    @kulteginmakishev7448 16 днів тому +25

    Glory to Ukraine!

  • @cultcargo
    @cultcargo 15 днів тому +6

    You used fake moscow map with Ukraine without Crimea

  • @serge_yerin
    @serge_yerin 15 днів тому +11

    Crimean peninsula is Ukraine, but on your map it is not.

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer 14 днів тому +3

    Pro-Russian map is a big SNAFU. You need to re-edit and re-upload.

  • @pettylein
    @pettylein 15 днів тому +7

    Crimea is Ukraine.

  • @ТуркаганАзиахан
    @ТуркаганАзиахан 15 днів тому +3

    СУБТИТРЫ ГДЕ ФЛЯТЬ

  • @Peizxcv
    @Peizxcv 14 днів тому

    EU is on the way out. All the major economies in EU had a change of government this year due to worsening economic conditions

  • @oleksandrpatriyuk6813
    @oleksandrpatriyuk6813 14 днів тому +3

    Definitely dislike this video, wrong map, prorussian position, broken language with a strong accent.

    • @xuyastik
      @xuyastik 13 днів тому

      Автор канала серб)) Думаю не надо объяснять почему он в своих видео всегда использует пророссийские карты)) Ох уж эти балканские братушки)) Допрыгаются что Украина возьмёт и признает независимость Косово, что только ухудшид недоимперское чувство сербов, сами виноваты.

  • @SANYISZTAL
    @SANYISZTAL 15 днів тому

    🐈‍⬛