Nova Post is launching its own courier delivery service in the Czech Republic, which is already available in Prague and the Plzeň, South Moravian, Moravian-Silesian, and Karlovy Vary regions, according to a company statement released on Friday.
According to the company’s press release, Nova Post has introduced precise two-hour delivery time windows with mandatory advance notification. This service is available seven days a week.
The company explained that within city limits, a courier will pick up a package at the customer’s request within one to two hours or at a time convenient for the customer. Same-day pickup is available throughout the region provided the request is submitted by 10:00 a.m.
It is noted that within 24 hours, the package will be delivered to 16 cities in the Czech Republic, as well as to Bratislava, Milan, Warsaw, and Berlin. At the same time, delivery to Lviv will take two business days.
“Expanding coverage for our own courier delivery is part of Nova Post’s strategic development in the Czech Republic. We strive to make the service as fast as possible and tailored to the daily needs of our customers,” the press release quotes Andriy Artemenko, CEO of Nova Post in the Czech Republic.
According to him, provided the pilot is successful, the company plans to expand this service nationwide starting in June.
Nova Post also clarified that from now on, customers will not need to pack parcels for shipment from their address or via AlzaBox parcel lockers; the courier will be able to pack them independently.
“There is also no need to label the shipment: it is sufficient to mark the parcel number in any way, or the courier will do so during processing,” the statement reads.
Additionally, customers can pay for the service online, in cash, or by bank card via a POS terminal directly when handing over or receiving a package. For pickups at a parcel locker, payment is made through the Nova Post mobile app.
As reported, last year the NOVA Group handled 522 million shipments, 29 million of which were in Europe. The group, which currently ranks 30th globally in parcel volume among express delivery and postal services, aims to enter the top 20 by 2030 and increase the number of shipments to 2 billion.
Vyacheslav Klimov, co-owner of the leading express delivery company “Nova Poshta,” Vyacheslav Klimov noted at the “Dialogues with NV” event dedicated to European integration that Nova Post Europe, part of the NOVA Group, plans to double its network of branches in Europe by 2026 and keep its strategic focus on ensuring maximum delivery speed.
“Nova Poshta,” Ukraine’s leading express delivery service and part of the NOVA Group, has announced an additional search for private carriers to collaborate with for future partnerships in various delivery segments—from pickup truck deliveries to parcel lockers to intercity transport, according to a company statement.
According to the company’s press release, “Nova Poshta” is interested in new partners for intercity transportation using BDF chassis trucks with a capacity of up to 20 tons that meet Euro 5 or Euro 6 environmental standards, as well as for regional transportation using vehicles with a capacity of 3–20 tons equipped with an all-metal body and a hydraulic tailgate for parcel delivery.
In addition, the company is looking for couriers, carriers, and lessors of vans or trucks with a payload capacity of 3–10 tons for door-to-door parcel delivery to customers.
Separately, the company is seeking couriers, carriers, and lessors of pickup trucks or vans for delivering shipments to parcel lockers.
The NOVA Group’s website states that it currently operates a fleet of over 9,000 vehicles.
As reported, in the first quarter of 2026, Nova Poshta increased its revenue by 26.9% compared to the same period in 2025—to UAH 14.98 billion—and its net profit by 4.4 times, to UAH 1.28 billion.
In 2025, the company increased revenue by 21.6%—to 54.2 billion UAH—and net profit by 4.4%, to 2.6 billion UAH.
Demand for orders on the Glovo courier delivery service rose by 7.7% with the start of massive power outages in December, while on the Bolt Food online service it rose by about 6% compared to last year, the companies said in comments to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“In general, during periods of power outages, we see an increase in demand for delivery,” said Vyacheslav Levchenko, general manager of Bolt Food in Ukraine.
Glovo added that it is seeing a gradual increase in the average check, which has grown by 1.7% since last month and by 19.4% compared to the same period in 2025.
Bolt Food reported that the average check has increased by approximately UAH 60 compared to last year.
At the same time, according to Glovo, the share of orders from restaurants decreased by three percentage points (pp) compared to the period before the massive power outages and by 6 pp compared to last year, Instead, Ukrainians began to order more often from grocery stores, whose share increased by 2 p.p. compared to the period before the blackouts and by 5 p.p. year-on-year, Glovo commented.
Bolt Food noted that a significant share of demand is generated by large chain establishments and well-known brands, including McDonald’s, KFC, BUFET, Eurasia, Lviv Croissants, Domino’s Pizza, and others.
“This choice is due to their wide representation, brand recognition, and stable service quality,” the company added in a comment to the agency’s request.
In addition, Ukrainians have recently been increasingly choosing hot and hearty dishes, with soups, burgers, pizza, and shawarma being the most popular, Bolt Food noted.
In addition, the choice of dishes is also changing, with demand for burgers falling by 10-15%. However, orders for soups, set meals, and main dishes (such as wok noodles or poke) have increased approximately threefold. As for the pizza and sushi category, the situation has remained almost unchanged, but there has been a 1-2% increase, Glovo said.
“People have started to order hot and nutritious meals through Glovo much more often — meals that can replace a full lunch, which is not always possible to prepare at home right now,” the company emphasized.
Glovo also recorded an increase in demand for pet products by more than 50% and for meat products by more than 48%.
As for the demand for essential goods, the indicator grew by more than 36%, medicines — by 25%, and the share of demand for alcohol increased by 6%. At the same time, the demand for flowers and frozen goods decreased by an average of 10-15%.
It is noted that Kyiv and Odesa show dynamics identical to the national ones. In Lviv, Dnipro, and Vinnytsia, there is also a stable interest in ordering dinners and lunches, and the demand for these dishes has doubled.
At the same time, in Kharkiv, demand for “fast” meals such as shawarma, pizza, tacos, and chicken dishes, on the contrary, increased by 30-35%, while ready-made complex lunches in the city began to be ordered less frequently, Glovo added.
The volume of tractor imports to Ukraine in January-September 2025 amounted to $629.41 million, which is 6.2% more than in the same period of 2024 ($582.56 million), according to statistics from the State Customs Service. According to the published statistics, tractors were mainly imported from the US (20.7% of total imports of this equipment, or $130.2 million), China (almost 18% or $113 million), and Germany (16.7% or $105.3 million), whereas a year ago it was Germany (almost $90 million), China ($82.3 million), and the Netherlands ($78 million).
At the same time, imports from other countries in January-September decreased by 17.9% to $280.9 million, and their share in the total volume of tractor imports decreased to 44.6% from 57.8%.
In September this year, tractor imports to Ukraine increased by 23.6% compared to September 2024, to $73.7 million.
Since the beginning of this year, as reported, tractor imports to Ukraine have shown negative dynamics: in January, they were down by a third compared to January 2024, but by the end of the first half of the year, the figures were almost on par with last year’s.
According to statistics from the State Customs Service, $4.5 million worth of tractors were exported in January-September this year, mainly to Romania (28%), Belgium, and Germany, while last year’s exports for the same period amounted to $4.1 million, mainly to Moldova (28%), Kazakhstan, and the Czech Republic.
As reported, tractor imports to Ukraine in 2024 amounted to almost $784 million, 5.6% less than a year earlier, while exports amounted to $5.44 million compared to $5.74 million.
The national postal operator Ukrposhta has announced that from October 1, it will reduce rates for sending small PRIME parcels (up to 2 kg) to the US by $1.5-2, and they will cost from 260 UAH, which is less than before, according to the company’s CEO Ihor Smelyansky.
“To support Ukrainian exporters during the busiest pre-holiday sales season in the US, which accounts for more than 25% of annual sales, Ukrposhta… Starting October 1, rates for small PRIME packages will start at 260 hryvnia, which is $1.5-2 less than before,” the company’s CEO Ihor Smelyansky wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
He specified that this refers to delivery within seven days to more than 15,000 branches throughout the United States.
According to him, in partnership with DHL, Nordi, and Lufthansa, a logistics chain has been built, including parcel processing in Ukraine within 24 hours, delivery to London or Frankfurt within 34-40 hours, then the parcel goes to recipients in the US: New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles.
According to Smiliansky, the introduction of US customs duties on postal items worth up to $800, with a 10% duty for Ukraine compared to 15% for the EU, 25% for Moldova, and 45% for Switzerland, gives Ukrainian small businesses the opportunity to maintain their positions and even increase their volumes, especially given that many countries have not yet resumed deliveries to the US.
Smiliansky added that Ukrposhta has a share of over 50% in the international delivery market.
According to information on the company’s website, the current cost of sending a small PRIME package (no side exceeding 60 cm, and the sum of all measurements not exceeding 90 cm) weighing 100 g to the US is UAH 321.64, and 2 kg – UAH 1,135.6.
Transportation costs for importing goods have quadrupled compared to pre-war levels, and transport delays at the border average 20 days, said Dmytro Derevytskyi, chairman of the board of directors of the national marketplace network Allo Dmytro Derevytskyi, chairman of the board of directors of the national market chain Allo.
“In the pre-war period, a truck from Warsaw to Lviv cost about EUR1.3 thousand, then in 2022 – EUR2-2.5 thousand. Now the freight is about EUR4.8 thousand and changes daily, somewhere plus or minus EUR300,” he explained at a discussion organized by Deloitte in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He also noted that the search for alternative options (to the Polish border) is not optimal. According to him, the company has redirected its trucks to Slovakia, Hungary and Romania amid the blockade of the Polish border, but the checkpoints there do not have the capacity to quickly process the increased flow of freight traffic. Waiting times at the border from Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia range from 3 to 6 days, and taking into account the queue at the Ukrainian border for exit (14 days), trucks stand in line for about 20 days.
“The cost of funds in Ukraine is very high. Imagine which business will be able to pay for this downtime for such a long time,” Derevytsky said and called on business associations to lobby for at least a reduction in transport downtime on the Ukrainian border.
Allo LLC was established in 1998. The group’s network includes showrooms under the Allo Mah and Allo brands, Mi stores and outlets under the brands of telecom operators.
According to the Opendatabot resource, the participants of Allo LLC are PE Dniproinvest 2016 (95.19%), Dmytro Derevytskyi (3.6%), and Maksym Raskin (1.21%). Derevytskyi is listed as the ultimate beneficiary.
