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Ukrzaliznytsia signs billion-dollar locomotive deal with GE
Summary
A look back at a seven-year rail contract and a minor tremor reported in the days before 26 February 2018.
What was happening in Ukraine in the days before 26 February 2018? Two reports stand out from that period, one about industry and one about geology.
On 23 February 2018, Ukrzaliznytsia and the American corporation General Electric signed a seven-year contract worth one billion dollars. The agreement covers the supply of locomotives and diesel locomotives.
A few days earlier, on 20 February 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 3.2 was recorded in Kryvyi Rih.
The two reports are unrelated, but together they give a snapshot of the news from Ukraine in the final week of that month: a large rolling-stock agreement with a US firm and a low-magnitude tremor in a city in the country's centre.
