Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region) early December would supply a first batch of 50 gondola cars to public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia under a tender to supply 350 gondola cars by the end of this year.

The plant said on its website that the contract to supply the cars was signed on November 18.

The plant said referring to KCBW Board Chairman Anatoliy Shabala that the plant obliged to complete the contract in the mentioned term. The plant hopes that suppliers of spare parts would deliver their goods on time.

"This is our first contract with Ukrzaliznytsia to supply freight cars in the past three years. This is a milestone event and a good order for the company. We have managed to maintain production facilities and at once started implementing the order," Chairman of the supervisory board Volodymyr Prykhodko said.

Kriukov plant, which is the CIS's sole manufacturer of both passenger carriages and freight wagons, manufactures freight wagons (open wagons, tankers, hopper wagons, and high-sided wagons), as well as passenger carriages, bogies for freight wagons, wheel pairs, and spare parts for subway carriages, escalators, containers, and road equipment.