Ukraine: Ukrzaliznytsia will buy French rails
France intends to supply 19 thousand tons of rails to Ukrzaliznytsia. The first batch is expected to arrive in January 2025. The whole lot will allow repairing 150 km of railroads. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine: Metinvest increases share of women to 30-35% of its personnel
The war with Russia exhausts workforce in Ukraine. Companies try to overcome the acute shortage of personnel by employing women in traditionally man jobs, as well as hiring students, teenagers and older people. Tatyana Petruk, sustainable development director at Metinvest, said that now the group had around 4000 job offers, and the personnel shortage affected…
Ukraine: Interpipe testing new logistics route to EU
Interpipe is testing a new logistics route to supply its products to the European Union countries using both railroad and automobiles, in particular, via a terminal in Polish Chelm. Answering a question on using internal waterways, Interpipe procurement and logistics director Olexiy Yanovskiy said: “Interpipe has been carefully studying the possibility of using the Danube…
