Analysis of Prospects and Prerequisites for the Establishing in Ukraine Operator of the Service Facility

Abstract

Annotation. The article analyzes the interaction of the main railway and sea transport in modern conditions. A review of new studies and publications in this direction showed that their disadvantage is the lack of a systematic approach and focus on solving only certain organizational issues of interaction. The researches of scientists of the Dnipro University of Railway Transport named after academician V. Lazaryan, characterized by a comprehensive coverage of all problematic issues, are highlighted. Cases of servicing ports by non-public railway stations, in which additional costs of stevedoring companies arise in the absence of a mechanism for their compensation, are highlighted.To obtain an answer to the main research question - the nature of the shortage of receiving-departure and marshalling tracks at railway stations of port railway junctions and the associated delays of wagons waiting for delivery to the port for cargo operations, the work of the Odessa railway junction and the Odessa-Port station serving State Enterprise "Odessa Sea Trade Port".The paper analyzes the technical equipment of the railway infrastructure of the stations of the Odessa junction and formulates a conclusion about the sufficiency of the track development of spans, stations and the throughput of sorting devices. Based on the analysis of the plan for the formation of trains at the junction stations, the organization of work with dispatch routes and container trains, elements of a negative impact on the organization of the work of the port and the Odessa-Port station were identified. These include systemic violations of the train formation plan at the Odessa-Port station, as well as peak loads on the railway infrastructure of the station and cargo devices when servicing railway routes upon arrival and during the formation of dispatch routes and container trains. Inaccuracies in the unified technological process of operation of State Enterprise "OSTP" and the Odessa-Port station were noted when determining shunting locomotives serving the station and the port, which lead to an underestimated number of locomotives and, as a result, additional delays of the rolling stock.The main reason for the disruption of the normal operation of the infrastructure of the railway stations of the Odessa railway junction was established – a systematic violation of the current plan for the formation of trains.As a recommendation for the creation of an operator of the railway infrastructure of the Odessa-Port station and the access road of the State Enterprise "OSTP", the need to improve the draft law of Ukraine "About Railway Transport" was considered in order to create a legislative framework for companies of operators of railway infrastructure similar to European ones.