Nova Poshta is introducing a new concept of branches, which will provide a full range of services for business clients and will actually replace the operator’s existing cargo branches.
According to the press service of the company, there are plans to open 40 such business branches in 2021 in the cities with the population of over one million people, regional centers and some large district centers.
“Nova Poshta has a lot of business clients – these are e-commerce market players, big business and small entrepreneurs working in various fields. Over the years of working with business, we have already thoroughly studied their needs: they make many shipments, delivering goods of various sizes – from small jewelry to large-sized equipment. They value their time and want to receive high-quality comprehensive services quickly and conveniently. We took all this experience into account when developing the concept of our new branches,” Nova Poshta CEO Oleksandr Bulba said.
The company notes that it is looking for co-investors to build new branches from scratch that will be focused on the needs of business clients. The partnership model is as follows: the investor builds branches at his own expense, and Nova Poshta undertakes to take it on a long-term lease.
“The new business branches will be placed in locations with a high concentration of businesses and developed infrastructure: the presence of access roads, parking for customers, etc. The branch premises will be divided into a front office and a back office. The first will be divided into two zones for processing items: up to 30 kg and over 30 kg. In turn, the back office will have an area for processing parcels and cargo, a packing department and a comfort zone for workers,” the report says.
Ukrzaliznytsia during the New Year holidays (from December 31, 2020 to January 3, 2021) carried 196,100 passengers in long-distance traffic, the company’s press service has reported.
According to the data provided, 33,100 passengers were transported in high-speed Intercity+ trains for the specified period.
The greatest demand was for trains in the western direction, in which 104,000 passengers were transported, including 9,300 passengers on Intercity+ trains.
“Ukrzaliznytsia provides all anti-epidemic measures for the safety of passengers while traveling and urges passengers to be sure to observe the mask regime while traveling and use an antiseptic,” the company added.
SkyUp Airlines (Kyiv) from March 30, 2021 starts the flight program on the Kyiv-Memmingen (Germany)-Kyiv route.
As the press service of the airline reported, the flights will be operated three times a week: every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The cost of a ticket without luggage from Kyiv to Memmingen is from UAH 1,963, from Memmingen to Kyiv – from UAH 2,086.
Nestlé, one of the world’s largest food manufacturers, has announced the launch of a product line in Ukraine in partnership with the Starbucks brand.
“As part of partnership between the two companies, a line of coffee for making at home has been launched on the Ukrainian market,” the company’s press announcement said.
According to the report, on January 15, Nestle will announce the details of partnership with Starbucks and its plans to develop the coffee business in Ukraine as a whole.
Currently, coffee under the Starbucks brand is already present in Ukraine both on the largest marketplaces and in niche online stores, and in large retail chains such as Silpo or Metro, and belongs to the upper segment with a price of about UAH 100 per 100 g.
Illegal import of vaccine against COVID-19 in significant volumes is hardly possible due to strict control over its circulation, senior partner of ABSC Krzysztof Siedlecki believes.
“The demand for the vaccine is huge, the requirements for its logistics are very high. I have very great doubts about the possibility of smuggling the vaccine into Ukraine, although it cannot be ruled out,” he told Interfax-Ukraine, commenting on the statement of businessman Mykhailo Brodsky that a number of Ukrainian government officials, in particular some people’s deputies and top officials, were secretly vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine illegally imported to Ukraine from Israel.
He noted that the COVID-19 vaccine is not currently in free circulation.
“This is not a product that you can just call and order from Pfizer. It doesn’t work that way. It’s hard to even imagine that some distributor can illegally import the vaccine, because this vaccine requires special transportation conditions, a very low temperature – 70 degrees below zero, because at higher temperatures the vaccine is stored for only a few days. The possibility of smuggling this vaccine under such conditions is very small,” he said.
The expert stressed that due to the high demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, the distribution of these vaccines around the world is carried out under the strict control of state authorities. At the same time, he admitted that “the doctor can take several doses of the vaccine uncontrollably, but their validity is limited: if they are in the refrigerator, then the shelf life is several days.”
“I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s not easy. If we were talking about several hundred doses, then there would be a resonance. I don’t believe that Pfizer would have allowed such a leak,” he said.
In 2020, Ukrtelecom provided 36 Epicenter shopping centers in different regions of the country with optical Internet.
According to the press service of the company, the network was provided with 100 Mbps Internet channels and PRI streams for a certain number of telephone numbers. This package of services meets the business needs of the shopping centers.
At present, Ukrtelecom is working on providing fast Internet for nine online order centers in Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Enerhodar (Zaporizhia region), Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Lviv, Ternopil, Horodok (Khmelnytsky region).
As the operator notes with reference to Epicenter, the network began to open modern order pick-up centers for the online store epicentrk.ua in 2020 in order to increase the level of customer service.
“The new order pick-up center are technological, with the automation of all processes, an address storage system for goods, a comfortable waiting area for customers with a children’s corner and online showcases. A high level of service in the centers for issuing orders, of course, requires fast and high-quality Internet,” the report says.
