KIEV, March 2 – Around 50% of freight wagons of the Ukrzaliznytsia's rolling stock are to be written off in the next three or four years, Director for Reformation, Law and Assets Policy and a member of the board of public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said.

"We're conducting a stocktaking and studying the universal car stock, but the technical state of most of them is the following: they cannot be used," he said after the sector control presentation of the Center for Transport Strategies in Kiev on Tuesday.

He said that the large part of freight wagons cannot be used in the next one or two years, and Ukrzaliznytsia is to make a decision what to do with the stock that is turning into a pile of scrap metal and what investment policy is to be carried out in the short-term outlook.