{"id":18339,"date":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/container-transportation-by-ukrzaliznytsia-increased-by-43-in-the-first-five-months-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:00:00","slug":"container-transportation-by-ukrzaliznytsia-increased-by-43-in-the-first-five-months-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/container-transportation-by-ukrzaliznytsia-increased-by-43-in-the-first-five-months-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Container transportation by Ukrzaliznytsia increased by 43% in the first five months of 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From January to May 2026, Ukrzaliznytsia transported 128.3 thousand TEUs of containerized cargo, an increase of 43% (or 38.7 thousand TEUs) compared to the same period last year. Exports accounted for the largest share \u2013 74.8 thousand TEUs, or 58.3% of the total volume. Imports reached 39 thousand TEUs (30.4%), while domestic shipments totaled 14.5 thousand TEUs (11.3%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grain remains the largest category of containerized cargo, with a 27% share (equivalent to 35.3 thousand TEUs), although its share has decreased by 4 percentage points compared to the previous year. Other key cargo categories include oilseed cake and meal (19 thousand TEUs, 15%), ferrous metals (18.1 thousand TEUs, 14%), vegetable oil (7.6 thousand TEUs, 6%), and synthetic resins (6.9 thousand TEUs, 5%). Shipments of oilseed cake and meal showed the most significant growth, with their share increasing by 6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the reporting period, export container shipments were distributed between seaports and land border crossings: 27.2 thousand TEUs (36% of the total export volume) passed through ports, while 47.6 thousand TEUs (64%) moved via land routes. The company notes that a major trend in 2026 has been the decline in the share of grain in intermodal transport within Ukraine, despite it remaining the leading commodity in the cargo flow structure.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to May 2026, Ukrzaliznytsia transported 128.3 thousand TEUs of containerized cargo, an increase of 43% (or 38.7 thousand TEUs) compared to the same period last year. Exports accounted for the largest share \u2013 74.8 thousand TEUs, or 58.3% of the total volume. Imports reached 39 thousand TEUs (30.4%), while domestic shipments totaled 14.5 thousand TEUs (11.3%).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}