Initial registrations of new passenger cars in June 2024 decreased by 8% compared to the same month in 2023 – to 5.2 thousand units, Ukravtoprom reports on its Telegram channel.
“For the first time this year, the demand for new cars showed a negative trend year-on-year,” the association said on Monday.
According to its data, compared to May 2024, consumer activity in the car market decreased by 7%.
Toyota retains market leadership (853 units) with a 20% drop in sales by June 2023. For the first time, BMW took second place with 545 cars registered (compared to 5th place in the June-2023 ranking and 319 cars registered). Renault dropped to third place from second in June last year and May this year – 487 units (29% less than in June 2023). Next are Skoda (278 units) and VW (269 units).
The bestseller of the month was the Renault Duster crossover (displacing the May leader Toyota RAV4), which has 447 registrations.
According to the Association, in general, in the first half of this year, more than 32.8 thousand new passenger cars were registered in Ukraine, which is 21% more than in the same period in 2023.
Earlier it was reported that experts attribute the stagnation in the new passenger car market primarily to the situation with electricity and the rise in the dollar.
As reported with reference to Ukravtoprom data, in 2023, the first registrations of new passenger cars in Ukraine increased by 60.6% compared to 2022 – to almost 61 thousand units.
The Alo national marketplace chain opened three and renovated 16 stores in the second quarter of 2024, the retailer’s press service reports.
“We are opening new stores and significantly expanding the range of products. Our customers often choose new ALLO Express delivery points to deliver their online orders. During April-June, headphones, power banks, small appliances and smartphones were most often ordered for delivery to ALLO Express,” presented the structure of purchases by Mykola Astapov, Development and Formats Director at ALLO Nikolay Astapov.
On April 15, the flagship showroom Allo Mach in Ternopil was opened, on May 7, a new store of the chain was opened in Vinnytsia (51 Mykola Ovodova Street), and on June 9, an ALLO Express corner was opened in Lviv at 152-B Lychakivska Street, on the territory of OKKO filling station.
In April, the flagship Allo Mach showroom in Rivne’s Zlata Plaza shopping mall was reformatted and updated, as well as stores in Vinnytsia at Skypark shopping mall, Odesa at 84/2 Akademika Filatova Street, Bila Tserkva at 59 Levanevskoho Street, and Dnipro at 2 Yuriy Kondratyuk Street.
In May, renovation and reformatting works were carried out in the Allo Mach showrooms in Kyiv’s Retroville shopping center, Odesa’s Riviera shopping center and Lviv’s Victoria Gardens shopping center. Allo Mach was re-equipped in Odesa at 34 Preobrazhenska Street and 114/5 Dobrovolskoho Avenue, as well as in Dnipro at 117 Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue and in the APPOLO shopping mall.
In June, the only ALLO in Berdychiv was reopened after reformatting. On June 17, the re-equipment of the Allo Mach showroom in the King Cross Leopolis shopping center (Lviv) was completed. On June 21, the reformatted Allo Mach reopened in Kryvyi Rih in the Sun Gallery shopping center, which was damaged in a rocket attack earlier this year. On June 22, after being re-equipped, Allo Mach opened in the Privoz shopping center in Odesa.
Allo was established in 1998. As of June 19, the group’s network includes 304 Allo, Allo Mah and Allo Express showrooms, as well as Mi Store and telecom operator stores operating in more than 100 Ukrainian cities.
According to the Opendatabot resource, the participants of Allo LLC are Dniproinvest 2016 PE (95.19%), Dmytro Derevytskyi (3.6%), and Maksym Raskin (1.21%). Derevytskyi is listed as the ultimate beneficiary.
Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria on Monday launched a joint mine-sweeping operation in the Black Sea to improve shipping safety, especially during the export of Ukrainian grain, Bloomberg reports.
The publication noted that the Istanbul-led initiative is the first major joint action by the Black Sea countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and focuses on clearing mines drifting in certain areas of the Black Sea as a result of the war.
“Russia and Ukraine are key grain producers, and the war has jeopardized the safe passage of goods. Kyiv launched its own Black Sea export route last year after the failure of a secure corridor agreement backed by Russia, Turkey and the United Nations. It has successfully boosted exports and helped the economy grow faster than forecast, but the route remains risky,” Bloomberg writes.
Among the major maritime losses, the publication named a Russian missile attack near the key Ukrainian port of Odesa on a merchant ship, killing the captain and other crew members, as well as a ship hired by Cargill Inc. that was damaged in November by an explosion while leaving a Ukrainian port in the Black Sea.
Ukraine said in March that exports from its Black Sea ports had almost returned to pre-war levels after repeated attacks and disruptions following Russia’s full-scale invasion. However, ports around Odesa frequently face strikes from Russia that continue to interrupt operations, Bloomberg recalled.
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the payment of UAH 207.883 million in dividends by NPC Ukrenergo, which is 90% of the company’s consolidated profit for 2023, reduced by the amount of income from the distribution of cross-border crossing capacity last year.
The relevant decision is enshrined in the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 589-r dated June 28, 2024, the text of which is published on the government portal.
Earlier, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, CEO of Ukrenergo, reported that the NPC received about UAH 400 million in profit for UAH 83 billion in revenue in 2023.
JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” (UZ) has created a separate legal entity – “UZ Energo” LLC, which will be engaged in the construction of gas-fired power plants. construction gas-fired power plants with a total capacity of up to 250 MW in the regions, the company’s press service reported.
“A decision has been made to construction of dozens of gas-fired power plants with a total capacity of up to 250 MW. As of today, Ukrzaliznytsia is holding active negotiations with suppliers and international financial organizations for the rapid implementation of this project,” the press release quoted Yevgeniy Lyashchenko, head of the UZ board, as saying.
According to the press release, UZ Energo will be 100% owned by Ukrzaliznytsia through Sales Energy Ltd, which is also owned by UZ.
Lyashchenko reminded that UZ is among the top 5 largest distribution companies in Ukraine in terms of network length and volumes of electricity flow.
The report says that UZ, as one of the largest consumers of electricity in Ukraine, is experiencing a significant deficit in its supply on an equal footing with everyone else. The introduced limits for electricity consumption cover the real needs of the company only by 75%.
They pointed out that with the approach of the fall-winter period, the increasing deficit in electricity supply may affect the uninterrupted movement of trains and adversely affect the provision of public services for household consumers. “UZ” is also the operator of water supply distribution for a number of consumers.
According to the report, gas-fired power plants will first of all be installed in regional centers and connected to the company’s networks, from which are powered railway transport facilities, social sphere, as well as critical infrastructure facilities of other sectors of the economy.
