Tag: Ukraine
The flydubai airline has increased the number of its flights to/from the Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) to nine per week.
Ukraine and Iran have agreed to broaden their cooperation in the aircraft manufacturing industry. Iranian experts predict that Iran will need about 600 passenger aircraft by 2021.
Royal Jordanian has stopped selling ticket, but the airline did not confirm the report of discontinuation of flights on the route.
The State Border Service has introduced a simplified system of admission of Ukrainian citizens into Ukraine at the Boryspil, Zhuliany (both in Kyiv), Kharkiv, Lviv, and Odesa airports.
Via Carpathia highway will have six branch routes, three of them will pass through the territory of Ukraine. The first segment will connect Lublin (Poland) with the route Kovel/Lutsk - Kyiv/Ternopil - Vinnytsia - Odesa.
Ukraine and Japan have ratified an agreement on provision of a second loan of USD 300 million for supporting economic reforms. Ukraine’s Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko announced this.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the Ukrzaliznytsia public railway company’s financial plan, which provides for a 10% average annual increase of freight rates
On 24 February, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the state program for development of 17 airports until 2023, with total investment planned at UAH 8.697 billion. The document is available on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Germany is working on a "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine. Karl-Georg Wellmann, the head of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group in the Bundestag, announced this in an interview.
Within the framework of the working group, a regular meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Commission on Road Transport will be held.
The shareholders of S7 Airlines (Russia) are considering the possibility of acquiring a stake in a Bulgarian airline with the aim of circumventing the ban on operation of Russian transit flights over Ukraine.
The prospect of opening two air routes over the Black Sea will be discussed at a meeting of the Black Sea Task Force of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in March this year.
Ukraine could become a transit country for delivery of raw materials from the Southern Hemisphere to Europe, through ports and by rail to the country’s western border crossings.
According to media reports, Russian trucks are being blocked in 10 regions of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian prime minister thanked Turkey for providing a five-year loan of USD 50 million.
Ukraine does not plan to buy coal from South Africa before the end of the current heating season. Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Volodymyr Demchyshyn announced this.
The proportion of Ukrainian goods that was transported on transit through the territory of Russia to other countries in 2015 was approximately 4.5% of the country’s total exports and it was worth about USD 1.6 billion.
Infrastructure Minister Andrii Pyvovarskyi and Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili have said that they will withdraw their resignation letters.
Oleksandr Zavhorodnyi also said that Ukrzaliznytsia is currently working to persuade other European shippers to use the Ukraine-China train
The pilot container train departed from Illichivsk on the route Ukraine-Georgia-Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan-China on 15 January.