Initial registration of electric vehicles (new and used) in Ukraine in January-November 2018 almost doubled compared to the same period of 2017, to 4,812 units, the Ukrautoprom association has reported. At the same time, the share of imported used cars, as in the previous year, was 84%. As reported, in the first half of this year, the growth in the electric vehicle market was 50% compared to the same period last year, and in January-October already 89% (the share of used cars on it is 85%).
According to the association, 598 electric vehicles passed primary registration in Ukraine in November, which is 2.4 times more than in the same month of 2017, but 80% of them were imported cars with mileage.
The most popular electric car in the Ukrainian market (344 units) remains Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 cars rank second with the registration of 41 cars, and Tesla Model S ranked third with 34 cars.
Renault Zoe ranked fourth position with 28 vehicles, while the fifth position belonged to Fiat 500e, which was chosen by 24 customers.
Canada’s Bombardier Transportation, the manufacturer of railway solutions, is ready to take part in a tender to supply electric locomotives for JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has written on his Facebook page. “Everyone is waiting for the tender of Ukrzaliznytsia, in which not only Alstom, but also Bombardier and Chinese companies are ready to take part. Given the complete deterioration of Ukrainian locomotives, there is no place to delay further,” he said, summing up his visit to France last week.
Earlier in Ukrzaliznytsia said that Alstom and CRRC, Siemens and Skoda showed their interest in this project.
As reported, in November, the International locomotive building conglomerate Skoda Transportation opened the first official representative office in Ukraine in Dnipro.
GE Transportation and Kriukov Car Building Works in early June 2018 signed an agreement to localize the production of 30 TE33A Evolution series locomotives. Ukrzaliznytsia received the first diesel locomotives at the end of 2018.
The framework agreement between Ukrzaliznytsia and GE, signed early 2018, provides for 15 year partnership in upgrade and modernization of traction fleet, the first stage of which is supply of 30 new diesel TE33AC locomotives to Ukrzaliznytsia in leasing with 10% localization level.
Ukrainian airlines in November 2018 serviced 79.4% of flights of the total number of flights serviced at Ukrainian airports within the 15 minute deviation from the timetable, while in October the figure was 85.2%, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry has reported.
According to the ministry, this happened despite the reduction in the number of flights from 4,540 to 3,790.
The Infrastructure Ministry said that the punctuality of foreign airlines in November compared with October decreased slightly from 84.9% to 83.7%, while the number of flights decreased from 2,720 to 2,510
Of the Ukrainian airlines that made more than 50 flights a month in October-November, Motor Sich remains the most punctual, although last month its figure dropped to 86.2% from 95.6% a month earlier, with the number of flights dropping to 239 from 250.
Windrose is second with a decline from 93.4% to 83.4% and with the number of flights falling from 482 to 356.
Punctuality of Ukraine’s largest airline in the market – Ukraine International Airlines – deteriorated from 86.6% to 80.9%, while the number of flights decreased from 3,161 to 2,681.
The indicators in November for SkyUp, Bravo, Yanair and Azur Air Ukraine were from 70% to 60% (in order of deterioration).
Czech Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and Air Arabia were ranked the top of the November punctuality rating among foreign airlines with the 100% punctuality, although the number of their flights is small – from 15 to 21 per month.
Pegasus Airlines had the best performance among low cost airlines – 96.2% with 105 flights, while Hungarian Wizzair and Irish Ryanair with significant lags turned out to be next in the rating – 81.5% with 406 flights and 79.7% with 222 flights respectively. The figure of the Italian airline Ernest was 76% with 96 flights.
Among other foreign airlines that serviced more than 100 flights from Ukraine in November, Belavia had the best result – 90% with 230 flights. Polish LOT had 86.3% with 314 flights, Turkish Airlines – 79.5% with 263 flights, Lufthansa – 77.6% with 170 flights and Austrian Airlines – 76.4% with 110 flights.
TAS pharmacy chain (TAS Pharma LLC), part of TAS Group, intends to acquire another 60 pharmacies in the near future, increasing their number to 153 by February 2019. According to a press release from the network, TAS has begun a deal to acquire a pharmaceutical network of 26 pharmacies. In addition, negotiations are underway on the acquisition of another 34 pharmacies owned by two participants in the domestic pharmaceutical market.
“The acquisition of 60 pharmacies will allow us to increase our company’s share in the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine, improve its efficiency and strengthen our position in the top 20 pharmacy chains of the country,” the press service said citing director general of the chain Valeriy Hudzenko.
TAS Group was founded in 1998. It has assets in financial and industrial sectors, agriculture, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and venture projects. The financial sector of the group includes TAScombank, Universal Bank, VS Bank, two insurance companies and a number of other organizations. The founder and main shareholder of the group is Sergiy Tigipko.
The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, Odesa Maritime Merchant Port and Brooklyn-Kyiv Port LLC with the participation of the French company CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container carrier, have signed a memorandum of understanding in France, the Ministry of Infrastructure has reported.
“The development of cooperation between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, Brooklyn-Kyiv Port and CMA CGM is another example of effective public-private partnership. As part of this project, berths Nos. 13-z, 14-s will be reconstructed in Odesa,” Head of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority Raivis Veckagans said.
According to him, this will allow avoiding vessel idleness and significantly increasing the volume of cargo handling.
“The signed memorandum gives hope that in the near future a large-scale infrastructure project will be implemented in Odesa seaport, which will attract investment in infrastructure development, increasing cargo traffic and the number of ship calls at the port,” Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan said.
CMA CGM Group is a shipping company headquartered in Marseille. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, it is the largest sea container carrier in France with the total deadweight of 2.208 million TEUs, operating with a fleet of 445 vessels and servicing more than 420 ports in the world.
