Business news from Ukraine

Odessa-Reni road closed for trucks for 24 hours due to bad weather

Movement for heavy vehicles on the public road M-15 Odessa-Reni (to Bucharest) is temporarily closed from 13:00 October 28 for a day due to difficult weather conditions, reported in the Telegram channel of the Patrol Police on Saturday.

“The traffic is temporarily blocked for heavy vehicles in connection with the complication of weather conditions (intense wet snow and rain) in order to prevent accidents and complications in traffic. Restrictions will take effect from 13:00 on January 28 until 13:00 on January 29 on the road M-15 Odessa-Reni,” the statement said.

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TURKISH COMPANY WILL REPAIR 47 KM OF ROAD IN UKRAINE

The road service in Ternopil region and the Turkish company Onur Group have signed an agreement for the repair of 47 km of the road between Ternopil and Berezhany on the M-12 Stry-Ternopil-Kropyvnytsky-Znamyanka route.
The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) reported on its Facebook page the work will start in the second half of March. It is planned that the vehicles will move from the village of Pidhorodne to the west. Part of the work, as noted by the winner of the tender, will be performed by a subcontractor.
“This section is the first new object of the Big Construction project in 2021 in Ternopil region. The repair of the M-12 highway is a priority of the presidential program, because together with the M-04 highway it will form a new route dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Independence. The M-30 highway will be to run from Stry (Lviv region) to Izvaryne (Luhansk region) and will be the longest in Ukraine. The total length of the road will be 1,392 km. It will symbolically “sew” the west of the country and the east, including the temporarily occupied territories captured by occupation forces, and after the victory over them, the road to this village will also be restored,” Ukravtodor said.
The agency notes that a section of the future M-30 Stry-Izvaryne highway in Ternopil region runs from the borders of Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytsky regions through Ternopil. From the regional center to the border of Khmelnytsky region, it was restored in 2018. And from Ternopil through the city of Berezhany to the borders of Ivano-Frankivsk region, this road has not been repaired since the 1990s.
Onur Taahhut, founded in 1991, carries out the construction of roads, bridges, abutments, structures and road reconstruction works. The company has successfully implemented important projects in Croatia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Moldova, Oman, Equatorial Guinea and Turkmenistan. It has experience in performing construction and installation works at infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine.

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SIX ROAD SECTIONS IN UKRAINE SELECTED FOR TRANSFER TO CONCESSION

Six sections of Ukrainian roads with a total length of 1,500 km have been selected for potential public-private partnership projects under this program at the first stage.
The relevant program was presented by Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy, head of the State Agency for Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) Oleksandr Kubrakov, with the participation of Deputy Head of the President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Regional Country Director of the World Bank in Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) Arup Banerji, Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation Oleh Kudashov, and head of the SPILNO PPP Project Management Office Taras Boichuk.
According to the head of Ukravtodor, in particular, among the specified roads are Kharkiv – Dnipro – Zaporizhia road (M-29, M-04, M-18) – repairs and overhauls, the estimated volume of initial investments is $370 million; Boryspil – Poltava road (M-03) – repairs, initial investment is $180 million; Kherson – Mykolaiv road (M-14) – reconstruction, overhaul, repairs and the construction of a new bypass of the settlement, the volume of initial investments is $310 million; Kyiv – Zhytomyr – Rivne road (М-06) – overhaul and repairs, initial investment is $370 million; Yahodyn – Kovel – Lutsk road (M-07, M-19) – reconstruction, repairs and overhaul, initial investment is $240 million; Dnipro – Kryvy Rih – Mykolaiv road (M-04, H11) – reconstruction, overhaul and construction of a new bypass of the settlement, initial investment is $290 million.
Krykliy, in turn, said that the model proposed by the first PPP program in the road industry would attract private investors to the Ukrainian road market. According to him, in the medium term it will be possible to attract more than $9 billion of private investments for the restoration and maintenance of over 4,500 km of national roads.
He added that international consultants hired by the World Bank Group have already completed a preliminary feasibility study for the six pilot road sections selected for the first stage of the project.
All the projects envisage further maintenance of the road by the investor for 20-25 years.
According to Krykliy, the ministry intends to announce the tender in 2021.
“But for this we must adopt all the necessary laws,” he added.

UKRAVTODOR RESTARTS REPAIR OF ROAD FROM IZMAIL TO VYLKOVE

The State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) has begun repair work on the sections of the route from Izmail to Vylkove with a length of 34 km (Odesa region).
As reported on the Ukravtodor’s Facebook page, work is currently being carried out on a ten-kilometer section from the city of Kiliya to the border of Izmail district. Arrangement of the base with crushed stone-sand mixture has already begun here.
The contractor is Rostdorstroy LLC.
It is noted that work is also carried out to develop designed-estimated documentation for the renewal of a 24 km section from Kiliya to Vylkove. The work is scheduled to begin early in the new year.
According to the agency, drivers will be able to use the updated route next year.
In total, in Odesa region, Ukravtodor plans to renew 194 km of roads in 2020.

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STATE-RUN UKRAVTODOR STARTS REPAIR WORKS ON ROAD TO OCHAKIV

The State Automobile Roads Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) in 2020 will renew the road T-15-13 Nechayane – Ochakiv (Mykolaiv region) with a length of 36.9 km, Ukravtodor has said in its Telegram channel.
“This is one of the worst roads in the country, which leads to picturesque places on the Black Sea coast. The plan is to launch it by the end of 2020,” the press service said, citing Ukravtodor Head Oleksandr Kubrakov.
Rostdorstroy LLC and OJSC Road Building Enterprise DST No. 4 Brest were identified as the contractors for the repair work.
The agency said that the work began from the north – the exit from the M-14 road Odesa – Melitopol – Novoazovsk. The contractor is currently cutting the worn-out road surface on a 6-kilometer stretch.
In general, in 2020 in Mykolaiv region it is planned to renew 185.5 km of national roads.
In Ukraine, according to the data of Ukravtodor, the Automobile Road Service has completed the upgrade of 2,022 km of roads in the upper layer of the road surface, another 800 km have been completed in the leveling layer. The leaders are Zakarpattia (223.5 km), Kharkiv (221.2 km), Zaporizhia (168.8 km), Sumy (149.9 km), Luhansk (133 km) and Lviv (130.1 km) regions.
RDS Group is included in the top three road construction companies of Ukraine. It includes Kyivshliakhbud” and Rostdorstroy. The core business is construction, reconstruction and maintenance of roads and bridges, construction of airfield complexes.
The ultimate beneficial owners of RDS Group are Ukrainian citizens Yuriy Shumakher and Yevhen Konovalov.

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STATE-RUN UKRAVTODOR STARTS REPAIRS OF IZMAIL-KILIYA-VILKOVE ROAD

The State Automobile Roads Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) has begun repair work on the ten-kilometer section of the T-16-07 Izmail-Kiliya-Vilkove national road.
Ukravtodor said in its Telegram channel that work is already underway to break up the old road surface and equip the base with crushed stone-sand mixture.
The contractor for the repair work on the site is Rostdorstroy LLC.
Ukravtodor said that under the Big Construction program it is planned to restore 194 km of roads in Odesa region in 2020.
RDS Group is included in the top three road construction companies of Ukraine. It includes Kyivshliakhbud” and Rostdorstroy.
The core business is construction, reconstruction and maintenance of roads and bridges, construction of airfield complexes.
The ultimate beneficial owners of RDS Group are Ukrainian citizens Yuriy Shumakher and Yevhen Konovalov.

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