Higher efficiency of work while maintaining the highest safety standards, shortening the ing on the tracks and stops over some of them. delivery time and simplifying sampling - this will be provided for PKP LHS by a new investment in the form of a mobile phyto-sanitary control system, which has just been commissioned at the Hrubieszów LHS station. This venture is a part of the investment process resulting from the creation of the New Silk Road.

On 24 May 2018 the populated area of Beskid in the Carpathians (Ukraine) witnessed an opening ceremony and putting into operation of a double-track Beskid railway tunnel.

On 22-23 October 2018, in Moscow, on the basis of the Russian University of Transport (RUT/ MIIT) , the OSJD International Conference "Training in the field of railway transportation: new challenges and opportunities for the growth of professional competencies" took place.

On 5 June 2018, Session XLVI of the OSJD Ministerial Conference has started its work in the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, the city of Bishkek,. The Session is attended by ministers and authorized representatives of ministries and bodies responsible for railway transport of the OSJD member countries of the following states:

In accordance with the decision of session III of the International Conference for the adoption of the text of the Convention on Direct International Railway Traffic (27 November – 1 December 2017, Warsaw, Republic of Poland), Session IV of the International Conference was held in Warsaw from 26 till 30 March 2018, which was attended by the delegations from the following OSJD member states:

On 12 March, in Riga, a meeting of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian national railway managers took place for the first time. Its result was an agreement to organise the ‘Amber Train’: an intermodal container train on the route Sestokai - Riga - Tallinn.

On 6 March 2018, the Chairman of the OSJD Committee, Mr. Tadeusz Szozda and the WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, signed in Brussels a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the cooperation between the two organisations.

On 16 April, meeting XXXIII of the Conference of General Directors began its work in the city of Da Nang (Socialist Republic of Vietnam), scheduled for 16-20 April 2018.

On 9 January 2018, the electrified section of Karshi-Termez was officially put into operation. This project was implemented in accor­dance with the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PP-1712 as of 21 February 2012.

During the official visit of the representatives of the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the President of the Latvian Railway Group (Latvijas dzelzcels, LDz) in Minsk in the beginning of 2018, the issues of further cooperation development between Latvian and Byelorussian railway companies were discussed, and on 5 February the first freight express train Riga — Minsk departed from the station of Skirotava (Latvia).