On December 2, the State Air Traffic Services Enterprise of Ukraine (Ukraerorukh) announced its intention to enter into a voluntary medical insurance contract with InterExpress Insurance Company (Kyiv) for its employees traveling abroad.
According to information on the Prozorro portal, the company’s price offer amounted to UAH 87.9 thousand at an expected cost of UAH 199.999 thousand.
The tender was also attended by insurance companies EXPO Insurance with a bid of UAH 88 thousand, European Travel Insurance – UAH 152.2 thousand, Ultra Alliance – UAH 181.5 thousand, and Insurance Guarantees of Ukraine – UAH 188.2 thousand.
“Ukraerorukh was founded in 1992. It provides a full range of air navigation services: air traffic services, organization of air traffic flows, organization and management of airspace, radio communications, navigation and surveillance, provision of meteorological and aeronautical information for all types of flights.
German investment company Connect GmbH & Co. geschlossene Invest KG (Connect) will provide Astarta, Ukraine’s largest sugar producer, with a €5 million loan for seven years to modernize its sugar factories, the company’s website reports.
“The agreement is financed by the ImpactConnect program, which includes any Connect financing and financing programs established by the German government. The purpose of this financing is to maintain, develop and modernize Astarta’s sugar factories,” the statement said.
The agricultural holding added that the financing will be provided to one of Astarta’s subsidiaries, but did not specify its name.
“Astarta is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine. It comprises six sugar factories, agricultural enterprises with a land bank of 220,000 hectares and dairy farms with 22,000 cattle, an oil extraction plant in Globyno (Poltava region), seven elevators and a biogas complex.
In 2023, the agricultural holding reduced its net profit by 5.0% to EUR 61.9 million, and its EBITDA decreased by 6.1% to EUR 145.77 million, while revenue increased by 21.3% to EUR 618.93 million.
Metinvest Group’s KAMETSTAL, a steelmaking plant at Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMK, Kamenskoye, Dnipro Oblast), replaced outdated electrical equipment in the company’s coke oven shop to stabilize the operation of coke oven battery No. 5 and improve energy efficiency.
According to the company, distribution substation No. 55 was modernized in the coke shop as part of this year’s investment program, which made it possible to demonstrate higher reliability of power supply to coke oven battery No. 5.
It is also specified that the main objective of the investment project is to completely replace the outdated contact equipment with modern automatic German-made equipment. As part of the modernization, new circuit breakers with current and thermal protection were installed, as well as new electromagnetic starters instead of contactors. In total, four sections of the substation have been upgraded, and the old equipment at RP-55 has already been decommissioned.
The new equipment with a high level of automation allows online monitoring of the circuit breakers. The sections are equipped with on-off visualization elements, which allows the electrician on duty to check the operation of each circuit breaker faster and more accurately.
Alexander Shulzhenko, an electrician at Kametstal’s coke shop, stated that the three months of operation of the new equipment have made it possible to improve the reliability of the battery’s power supply and avoid downtime of the main equipment related to the reliability of power supply.
“Also, thanks to the metering system introduced as part of the modernization, which allows us to track electricity consumption online on a computer, we can now analyze the electricity consumption of each consumer throughout the day. This analysis has improved the accuracy of electricity consumption planning, and we plan to develop energy-efficient measures to reduce electricity consumption based on the analytical findings,” said Shulzhenko.
“Kametstal was established on the basis of Dnipro Coke Plant and Central Iron and Steel Works of Dnipro Metallurgical Plant.
According to the 2020 report of Metinvest Group’s parent company, Metinvest B.V. (Netherlands) owned 100% of the shares in DCCP.
Ukrzaliznytsia JSC (UZ) has doubled the free internet limits in Intercity and Intercity+ trains to 2GB, the company’s press service reports.
“Ukrzaliznytsia has doubled the internet limits on Intercity and Intercity+ trains. From now on, users on trains can access 2 GB of traffic at a speed of 10 Mbps for free. So don’t waste a single minute while traveling – communicate with your family, friends, colleagues, and partners while continuing to travel on schedule,” she said in a telegram on Wednesday.
It is specified that since the launch of Wi-Fi in Intercity, 750 thousand passengers have used it – in fact, every second passenger on high-speed trains. The total traffic on board exceeded 2.3 petabytes.
The most active Wi-Fi users travel on routes #741/742 and #777/778 Kyiv-Lviv, where an average of 66% of passengers on each flight connect to the Internet, UZ said in a statement.
The company reminded that the Internet is already available in 16 Intercity trains: ten Hyundai, two Skoda, two Tarpans, and the same number of trains with MPLT cars.
Earlier, Ukrzaliznytsia launched free Wi-Fi in ten Intercity and Intercity+ trains. Travelers have the opportunity to use 1 GB of traffic at a speed of 10 Mbps by logging in to the onboard portal portal.uz.com.ua.
It was also reported that Oleksandr Pertsovsky, Chairman of the Board of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, promised to equip long-distance night trains with Wi-Fi starting in 2025.
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