OREANDA-NEWS. February 24, 2012. The whole infrastructure of our railways after reforming will remain in the state ownership. This was announced by the First Deputy Director General of the Ukrzaliznytsia Serhiy Bolobolin.

According to Serhiy Bolobolin, under conditions of reforming, the owner of the newly established joint stock company will be the state, which owns 100% shares as well for private companies it will be ensured an equal access to a railway infrastructure on equal, mutually beneficial terms.

The benefit is obvious - the total fleet of rolling stock, the number and quality of services can be updated at the expense of a private investor.

Reforming of railway transport will allow clearly delineating the regulatory and commercial obligations, which in Ukraine there were combined 20 years.

"The UZ as a body of public administration has to perform the functions of an entity, including - share earnings, manage rolling stock. And this is not normal phenomenon," the First Deputy Director General of the UZ noted.

Serhiy Bolobolin explained that reforming process would allow switching from the current territorial principle of operation of railroad transport, when in the management of railways there are several enterprises (passenger, locomotive, etc.), to a functional structuring by a territorial basis.