KYIV. Feb 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Uber international technological platform in Ukraine will operate under local legislation, the press service of the platform has reported.
“Uber is a technological platform that connects riders and drivers. Uber in Ukraine will work only with individual businessmen and legal entities that will have all the required documents, including the licenses,” the press service said.
Uber in Ukraine will be presented by a local legal entity and will be managed by a team of local specialists.
“We support competition. We believe that it is of benefit to consumers. Uber provides affordable, reliable and safe way of riding the city and it is a supplement to local transport infrastructure. We don’t have the task to destroy the urban transportation market. On the contrary, Uber considerably widens the market, creating additional demand on rides,” the press service said.
The service said that this create additional economic opportunities for hundreds of drivers that is the possibility of the additional legal income. Money for rides becomes part of the local economy and an additional source for tax payments. All payments for rides are cashless, which guarantees transparency.
“After the launch of Uber, Kyiv will become one of 400 cities where citizens will be able to use the reliable, affordable and safe service for riding from point A to point B at the push of a button of the smartphone. We’re sure that the presence of so popular and acknowledged service will contribute in the attractiveness of Kyiv city as the popular direction for international tourism,” Uber said.
As reported, in December 2015, the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine announced the appearance of the Uber service in Ukraine and in July 2015 U.S. Uber Technologies Inc., the designer of the popular taxi application to order taxi, was looking for a manager for the Ukrainian market.
In February 2016, Uberlin company, an authorized partner of the Uber taxi service (the United States), started compiling a database of drivers in Ukraine for further connection to the service.
Currently five Ukrainian cities are available on the website of Uberlin for submitting applications from drivers, namely Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk. Three indicative tariff plans are offered for Ukrainian drivers: “Weekly” (for 40 trips per week the commission is 6% plus a 5% tax, payments are made once a week), “Daily Cashless” (a commission of 10% plus a 5% tax, funds are daily transferred to the card), and “Fixed” (a commission of UAH 500 a week).
The company does not disclose the concrete date when the service is launched, although some media reported that this could happen in the first quarter of 2016.
