OREANDA-NEWS.  July 17, 2012. On the need for reform of the State Administration of Railway Transport "Ukrzaliznytsia" comes in the country more than a decade. And only now reform is becoming a reality. An interview to 2000 newspaper with the Director General of Ukrzaliznytsia Volodymyr Kozak devoted to this issue.

According to him the reform of railway transport of Ukraine is scheduled for completion until 2019. "So, plans are ambitious. We have only seven years for this. I will give such examples - Deutsche Bahn reformed almost 20 years. Russia launched reforms in 2000. Ukraine is watching for a long time, to draw conclusions. However, we have a lot of problems, and they need to be solved" - said General Director of Ukrainian Railways. - Today we have begun to create conditions for normal development of the railways".

Also, the publication notes that the structural reform of rail transport has nothing in common with privatization. The purpose of creating a vertically integrated company, one hundred percent of the shares of which are owned by the state is the improvement the efficiency of rail transport for passengers and companies in the country.