Tag: road
However, the problem is that asphalt-concrete [roads] cannot be repaired with concrete.
According to Altcom’s Board Chairman Oleksandr Tislenko, this contract constitutes nearly 20% of Ukraine’s total exports to Iraq this year.
Investments in the implementation of the “New Silk Road” strategy are measured in trillions of dollars. Ukraine began appearing on the list of potential transit countries for Chinese goods this year.
The application currently has more than 39,000 registered users.
According to him, this amount of money was generated from the 5% excise duty on gasoline at the pump, which goes directly into local budgets.
Infrastructure Minister Andrii Pyvovarskyi has said that complete overhaul of the Odessa-Reni highway will cost UAH 3.5-4 billion.
Ukraine has signed an agreement with the World Bank on provision of a loan of USD 560 million by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (a member of the World Bank group) for financing reconstruction of highways.
Ukrzaliznytsia continues to automate railway level crossings with the aim of improving traffic safety standards and six crossings with bus traffic will be automated before the end of 2015.
Bulgaria supports reconstruction of the Highway M15 (Odesa-Reni, to Bucharest), and it is ready to help Ukraine obtain European Union funds for financing development of the documentation for the project.
The World Bank has approved the third project for reconstruction of the M-03 Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhansky highway worth USD 560 million.
The Ministry of Infrastructure has prepared the draft law "On Harmonizing Ukrainian Legislation on Road Transport with the Regulations of the European Union." The document was prepared pursuant to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has banned transportation of divisible goods weighing more than 40 tons by road. The relevant government resolution No. 869 dated 21 October has already been published.
The competitiveness of Ukrainian roads is one of the lowest in the world, according to the Global Competitiveness Index published annually by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Shulmeister on 2 October signed a protocol on provision of a loan of USD 560 million from the World Bank (the first part of the third loan tranche) for reconstruction of the Poltava-Kharkov highway
The Ministry of Infrastructure will spend more than EUR 50 million out of a total loan of EUR 500 million from Germany on restoration of the transport infrastructure in eastern Ukraine.
An interagency commission has rejected the applications of the two companies that expressed the desire to participate in Ukraine’s first highway concession project, which involves construction and operation of a new Lvov-Krakovets highway.
A team from the Ministry of Infrastructure has worked on development of the structure of the relevant project for the past three months, together with the Ukravtodor and the World Bank
For container trucks, such a ban will be imposed when their weight parameters exceed 11, 18, 24, and 44 tons respectively.
The Ukrainian Road Fund is expected to be created with revenue from excise duties on petroleum products imported into Ukraine. Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk is hoping that the parliament will adopt the relevant draft law.
The Ministry of Infrastructure has prepared and submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers a draft resolution on increasing the penalty for exceeding the maximum weight of loads that can be transported by road.