Starting from 27 December 2023, a new daily passenger train service started on the route Vilnius – Kaišiadorys – Siauliai – Joniškis – Jel- gava – Riga and in the opposite direction. The new route immediately aroused great interest among passengers, who managed to purchase more than 2000 tickets on the Vilnius-Riga route just a few days before the first train departure.

The negotiations were held in the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashghabat, between the heads of the railway administrations of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan The Acting General Director of the Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA), Bakhturahman Sharafat, accompanied by the ARA delegation, arrived in the capital of Turkmenistan on 30 November to participate in the negotiations.

The OSJD has recently paid more and more attention to the issues of introduction and development of modern information technologies in order to provide a higher level of service and increase the competitiveness and efficiency of the railways.

The PKP LHS LLC (PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa) has officially put into operation a transshipment terminal located at the Wola Baranowska LHS station in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland.

The Russian Railways OJSC received the first mainline electric locomotive produced by the Ural Locomotives LLC, which is planned to be used on the section of St. Petersburg – Babaevo – Ust-Luga of the Oktyabrskaya Railway.

The new electric locomotive “Malachite” is rightfully the flagship among the new generation of freight locomotives: heavy-duty, reliable and economical, incorporating the most modern technical solutions. The 3ES8 loco is equipped with a Russian-made asynchronous traction drive, which is in many ways superior to its foreign analogues.

The regular meeting of the OSJD Committee members No. 6/2023 was held on 12 December 2023 in a hybrid format. As part of the agenda, members of the OSJD Committee reviewed and adopted the reports on:

More information on the results achieved in the work of the OSJD Commission on Freight Traffic in 2023 and on the OSJD tasks to be carried out in the field of freight traffic in 2024 

The joint meeting of Plenipotentiary Representatives of Members of the OSJD Ministerial Conference and the Conference of General Directors (Authorised Representatives) of OSJD Railways was held on 5-8 December 2023 at the OSJD Committee (Warsaw) with the participation of Plenipotentiary Representatives of Members of the OSJD Ministerial Conference and

Most recently, from 13 till 16 June 2023, the L-th anniversary session of the OSJD Ministerial Conference was held in Busan (Republic of Korea), which gave a new impetus to the development of both the entire Organisation for Cooperation between Railways and the railway transport in the Republic of Korea.

The meeting of the authorised representatives of the Parties to the PGW Agreement on updating the existing PGW Agreement, introduction of amendments and additions to the PGW Rules, updating the charge rates for the use of freight wagons and bogies in international rail traffic and identification of the status of the shared-use freight wagons for their accounting was held in the OSJD Committee in Warsaw from 19 to 22 June 2023 according to the Work Plan of the OSJD Commission on Freight Traffic for 2023.