RATIONALE TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BY RAILWAY

The article deals with the trends in Ukraine’s railway transport development. It has been concluded that the reason for decrease in freight volume is its transfer to competitive modes of transportation. The main tendency in transport policy of the government and Ukrzaliznytsia is cooperation between railways and other modes of transport by means of development of multimodal transportation. The priority trend is the horizontal integrated partnership. It can be fulfilled by integrated transport enterprises. The advantages of this is complete satisfaction of customer demand, door-to-door delivery with minimum expenses and most conveniently, cost efficiency of all modes of transport involved. The technical outfit of multimodal transportation should be implemented due to cooperation of railway transport and railway manufacturers by vertical integrated partnership. These two partnerships should be closely connected within a two-level strategic partnership model.