KYIV. Jan 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Volkswagen brand seeks to occupy at least 5.3% of the Ukrainian new passenger car market in Ukraine in 2017 (its share was almost 7.6% in 2016), expecting the market growth by at least 8.5% compared to 2016.
Volkswagen passenger car marketing manager at Porsche Ukraine Oleksiy Ischenko told Interfax-Ukraine that the new passenger car market could be at least 70,000 cars (64,478 in 2016). Volkswagen seeks to sell around 3,700 cars (4,884 were sold in 2016 compared to 2,180 in 2015).
He said that last year was successful for the brand. It managed to reach the top three leaders of the car market (in 2015 it was eighth with 4.7% market share).
“The key driver of our success was competitive pricing of popular cars VW Jetta and Polo Sedan. We managed to offer well-equipped cars with efficient engines to the market,” he said.
The company did not comment on the projected reduction of the market share in 2017.
Ischenko said that this year it is planned to bring new models to the market.
“The important newcomers this year will be upgraded VW Golf and new car Arteon, the new flagship of the passenger car range of the brand. Arteon is the idea successor of Volkswagen CC,” he said.
It is planned to present a seven-seat car of new Tiguan.
Ischenko said that today Porsche Ukraine has 26 dealers in the country and this year the chain does not plan to expand.
The Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) has urged lawmakers to dismiss bill No. 3549-1 concerning electronic communications that will be put for repeated first reading on January 19 and two other options of the eponymous bill.
The ULIE said in its address to parliamentarians that bill No. 3549-1 is aimed at not harmonizing Ukrainian legislation with the EU, but approaching the national law system with the Russian one.
“The requirements and provisions that are not in line with the Constitution of Ukraine, Ukrainian legislation and EU recommendations restricting Constitutional rights of citizens, not complying with the state policy and creating the conditions for the unlawful seizure of power by a group of persons in regulating the most attractive sector of Ukraine are evidence of this,” the league said.
As reported, on September 20, 2016, the Verkhovna Rada sent for repeated first reading bill No. 3549-1 concerning electronic communications submitted by MP Oleksandr Danchenko. Two other bills – No. 3549 submitted by MP Yuriy Moroko and No. 3549-2 submitted by MP Ruslan Lukyanchuk and Valeriy Babenko – were rejected or failed to have enough supporting votes.
KYIV. Jan 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) –Darnytsia Wagon Repair Plant, a branch of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia, has announced a number of tenders for the supply of 3,000 freight high-sided wagons.
According to reports in the ProZorro system of public procurement, the company announced eight tenders for a total of UAH 3 billion.
Documents for participation in the tender are accepted until February 20-21. Wagons should be supplied in the first half of 2017. It is agreed one delivery must include 50 units.
These cars will be used by the buyer for transportation of bulk, small-sized, packaged goods across the entire network of railways of Ukraine and member states of the Railway Transport Council with the possibility of unloading bulk cargo through the hatches in the floor and on car dumpers, as well as with the help of grab cranes.
The maximum speed of movement of a fully loaded or empty wagon is 120 km/h, the load capacity is not less than 70 tonnes, the weight (packaging) is no more than 24 tonnes. Its designed speed is 120 km/h.
KYIV. Jan 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – WOG intends to increase the number of gas filling units at its fuel filling stations by 67% (160), to 400 in the current year, company CEO Serhiy Koretsky has said at a press conference in Kyiv.
“We plan to increase the number of gas units in our network to 400 objects. Today their number is about 240. We see that gas is one of the products, which has been growing in Ukraine for three years,” he said.
According to Koretsky, WOG plans in 2017 to purchase the first mobile laboratory for autogas quality control.
According to the CEO, WOG plans this year to increase the fuel filling station network from 550 to 600 units.
“In 2017 it is planned to open about ten new complexes of new formats – a large complex with an expanded menu WOG Cafe and WOG Market,” he said.
As reported, WOG intends in 2017 to expand the network of chargers for electric vehicles at its fuel stations to 300.
DAVOS. Jan 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kharkiv Tractor Plant that resumed operations on January 6, 2017 after a many-month idle period, would soon produce the first tractor and by the end of February the plant seeks to produce 150 tractors a month, owner and President of DCH Group Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has said.
“We are making the first tractor soon and reach 100 tractors a month. By the end of February it would be 150 [tractors a month],” he told Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the “Ukrainian Breakfast” in Davos organized the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Yaroslavsky said that the plant would mainly sell tractors in Iran and Turkey.
As for the plans to produce tractors in 2017, he said that it is planned to make around 2,000 tractors, taking into account 150 a month.
“My dream is to produce 3,500-4,000 tractors a year, but the plant was idle for 10 months. We have $8 million of loss. Everything is destroyed, links are broken and we are restoring everything in 24 hours,” he said.
He said that today over 3,000 people work at the enterprise, but more employees will be hired.
“We are hiring [the staff]. We have money and wages will be paid,” he said.
Yaroslavsky also said that relations with suppliers of spare parts and materials are to be restored. He said that the plant does not intend to look for new suppliers.
“We should simply restore links. These are 2,000 adjacent companies, including many foreign ones,” he said.
Asked about suppliers from Russia, he said that he will act in pursuance to Ukrainian law.
Commenting on the earlier announced possibility of producing goods for the defense and industrial complex, Yaroslavsky said that these products can be made only if there are orders.
“When we have orders, we will produce for the defense and industrial complex,” he said.
