TransAchema-the first private rail operator in Lithuania

After ten years of planning, TransAchema is ready to start operating as a private rail carrier by using public infrastructure of the state-owned company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Raileways).
It would become the first private company factually engaged in transportation services to take part of the state railway company’s market share.
“First of all, we want to begin with cargo of AG companies, we are planning to carry AB Achema cargo to terminals of the cargo handling company KLASCO at Klaipeda port,” said Grazina Urbutiene, managing director of TransAchema.
TransAchema projects to carry up to 2 million tonnes of Achema production to Klaipeda port which, according to estimates of the company, will account for 3-4 percent of total cargo transported by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai.
TransAchema owns a private carriage park of almost 1,000 railcars consisting of tank-wagons, bulk-wagons, half-wagons. The company also owns more than 36 kilometres of railway approach roads.