KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukrzaliznytsia is testing a TE33À freight diesel locomotive made by General Electric Corporation.

"The General Electric's locomotive is being tested in Ukraine. The tests will last for four months. All its capabilities will be tested," Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said at the presentation of the locomotive in Kiev on Wednesday.

He recalled that by late October Ukrzaliznytsia will draw up a five-year Ukrainian locomotive and wagon modernization plan. Foreign experts will be involved in this work in the second half of October – leading locomotive manufacturers and experts with experience of railways transformation.