Ports of “Big Odessa” on Wednesday shipped 149.3 thousand tons of agricultural products in the framework of the “Grain Initiative”.
“Today four ships left the ports of Big Odessa, which will deliver 149.3 thousand tons of agricultural products to the countries of Asia and Europe. In particular, the bulk carrier SUGAR with Ukrainian vegetable oil for India”, – noted in the message of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
In the ports involved in the “Grain Initiative” there are 20 vessels under handling. They load 613.2 thousand tons of Ukrainian agricultural products.
In addition, three more vessels are moving along the “Grain Corridor” for the loading of 162.4 thousand tons of agricultural products.
Since August 1, 529 ships left the ports of “Big Odessa”, which exported 13.2 million tons of Ukrainian food products to Asia, Europe and Africa.
Primary registrations of new buses in Ukraine in November increased by 11.7% as compared to October this year, but decreased by 25.3% as compared to November 2021, according to statistics of Ukravtoprom association.
According to the statistics published on the Association’s website, Ataman buses (made by Cherkasy Bus) have regained the leadership in this segment, with 55 vehicles registered, versus 11 in October 2022 (fourth place in the ranking) and 44 vehicles in November last year, when the brand was also in the lead.
Second place went to Citroen with 26 buses, with an increase in sales of 2 units against October of this year and 22 units – against November last year, when it was the seventh place in the rating.
The leader of the previous accounting month, buses Etalon (made by Chernihiv Autoplant) in November is finishing the top three with 19 vehicles against 40 in October 2022. Next comes Ford (8 buses) and ZAZ (6 cars). There are also two Ruta buses and one each for Jac and Temsa.
The statistics of Ukrautoprom does not include buses (including school buses), which are purchased at the expense of the state and local budgets.
“On Wednesday, Ukravtoprom also published information on imports of buses (new and used) to Ukraine in January-September this year, according to which 1021 buses were imported (by 16% less than a year before), and their total customs value amounted to $30.7 million. 86% of imports were used vehicles.
The leader in supplies of buses for nine months was Germany – 388 units, second place was occupied by Poland – 126 units, the third Turkey with 107 buses. Also in the top five largest suppliers were Belgium and Sweden, which imported 98 and 66 units of this type of transport respectively.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary did not veto EU macro-financial assistance to Ukraine and that Budapest is ready to provide financial assistance to Ukraine on a bilateral basis.
“Today’s news was all about Hungary vetoing financial assistance to Ukraine. This is fake news. Hungary is ready to provide financial assistance to Ukraine on a bilateral basis. No veto, no blackmailing,” he said in Twitter.
At the same time, Orbán said “we do want to convince the EU member states that common EU debt is not the solution.”
“We envision a different future for Europe. One built on strong member states, instead of huge piles of common debt,” he said.
Three bulkers loaded with wheat, corn and sunflower oil departed from Ukrainian ports on Tuesday, the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) said.
“The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) reports that three vessels left Ukrainian ports today [December 6] carrying a total of 91,050 metric tonnes of grain and other food products under the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the JCC said.
MV Sugar will deliver 37,500 tonnes of sunflower oil to India, MV Alexandros III will transport 31,050 tonnes of corn to Spain, and MV Moayad Y loaded with 22,500 tonnes of wheat is destined for Turkey.
Six ships transited the maritime humanitarian corridor on December 6 on their way to Ukrainian ports.
“As of 6 December, the total tonnage of grain and other foodstuffs exported from the three Ukrainian ports is 13,136,453 metric tonnes. A total of 1,057 voyages (529 inbound and 528 outbound) have been enabled so far,” the JCC said.
State Service for transport security (“Ukrtransbezopasnost”) December 12, 2022 will begin the full launch of the electronic queue “єCherga” at the checkpoint “Yagodin – Dorohusk”.
As noted in a message in the telegram channel “Ukrtranssbezopasnost” on Tuesday, testing of the electronic queue at the border crossing “Yagodin – Dorohusk” has been successfully completed, also all comments from carriers have been taken into account.
According to the department, from December 12, the passage of cars at “Yagodin” will be exclusively by appointment in the electronic queue.
Also on December 12, inspectors of “Ukrtranssbeksosti” will help drivers who stand in “live” queue in front of the checkpoint “Yagodin – Dorogusk” to register on the site of electronic queue.
The “Become in Queue” button on the website will be activated after the last car from the live queue is entered into the digital queue.
All applications submitted during the test period of the site will be canceled.
The e-queue project is implemented by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the State Transport Security Service, Ukravtodor, and the State Customs and Border Guard Service of Ukraine with the support of the USAID / UK Aid Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services/TAPAS project.
