UKRAINIAN Railways (UZ) and Bombardier have pledged to explore the possibility of jointly producing locomotives in Ukraine under a memorandum of understanding which was signed in Kiev on July 11 by UZ chairman Mr Wojciech Balczun, Bombardier director of business development Mr Flavio Canetti, and Mr Erwin Gerber, head of the company's locomotives business unit, in the presence of Canadian minister of international trade Mrs Chrystia Freeland, and Ukrainian infrastrcuture minister Mr Volodymyr Omelyan.