Lemtrans is a private operator of railway rolling stock in Ukraine. The company owns over 15,000

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cars (

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s), which transport over 52 million tons of cargo annually. It is fully owned by

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. Lemtrans is a member of the

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and the

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. In 2017 the company signed a three-year cooperation agreement with its SCM Holdings sister company

Metinvest Metinvest is a group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US. The company mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products. Th ...

, a steel and mining company. In 2017 the head of Lemtrans, Volodymyr Mezentsev, explained that due to the

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, the company had control of 18,000 low-sided cars, with the other ones being blocked at the " ATO area". Despite the war conditions in the eastern areas of Ukraine, according to its reports Lemtrans had increased its cargo transportation in 2015 by over 13%. Lemtrans carries out repair of rolling stock at rented depots at

Volnovakha Volnovakha ( Ukrainian and Russian: , , ; ) 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 The train station is a railway h ...

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and

Kamianske Kamianske (, ; ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion and Kamianske ...

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. Early in the

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, fighting took place in Volnovakha, with Lemtrans's depot suffering major damage. In March 2022, Lemtrans lost control of the depot to the Russians, who tried to restart operations there.

References

External links

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