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9.2 Major corporate news 9.2.3 Transport corporate news
With Ukrzaliznytsia facing complaints of shortages of freight trains, Ukraine demands return of 30,000 rail cars stranded since 2014 in the Russian-occupied corner of Ukraine . “I want to remind you of the terrible fact that the Russian aggression led to the theft of more than 30,000 cars from Ukrzaliznytsia that remained in the occupied territory,” Parliamentarian Irina Gerashchenko said Wednesday in the Rada. Prospects of return do not look good. UNIAN reports Geraschenko added: “There are now there are announcements on Russian and separatist websites with proposals: “Buy cars stolen in Ukraine.”
With Kyiv Sikorsky Airport flirting with the 3mn passenger mark this year, the airport plans to invest $22mn to double the capacity of the main passenger terminal , Terminal A. In 2012, when the terminal opened for the Euro 2012 football championship, the airport, then called Zhuliany, handled 862,000 passengers. Built to handle 700 passengers an hour, Terminal A last month handled 10,000 a day.
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, rolls out its Ukraine service at the end of October . Ryanair will have direct flights from Kyiv Boryspil to 12 EU cities – Barcelona, Berlin-Schonefeld, Bratislava, London-Stansted, Stockholm, Vilnius and six Polish cities: Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw-Modlin and Wroclaw. By Friday, the discount airline will inaugurate flights from Lviv to five EU cities: Krakow, London-Stansted, Memmingen (120 km from Munich), Warsaw-Modlin, and Weeze (83 km from Dusseldorf).
Wizz Air started daily direct flights yesterday from Kyiv Sikorsky to Vienna. With this flight, Wizz Air offers direct flights from Sikorsky (Zhuliany) to 20 EU cities, including London-Luton, Lisbon, five Polish cities and eight German cities. On March 1-2, Wizz Air starts new flights to: Bremen, Riga, and Billund, Denmark
Switching from east to west, Ukrainian rail passengers now travel more to the EU than to Russia , Ekonomichna Pravda reports, quoting Oleksandr Krasnoshtan, deputy director of long distance passenger service. Popular destinations are Warsaw and Przemysl in Poland, and Kosice in eastern Slovakia. Yevhen Kravtsov, acting CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia, posts on Facebook that through August, passenger traffic hit 270,000, more than double the same period last year.
Antonov is to build two AN-158 regional jets for Fanair, under a memorandum signed on October 12 with the new Ukrainian airline. Configured to carry 97 passengers, the jets will have ranges of 2,500 km, sufficient for flights to domestic and Black Sea destinations. Priced at $32mn, the jets are to be delivered by the end of 2020.
Smart Maritime Group is building three tanker ships for VEKA Group of Holland . In Mykolayiv, Smart is building two tankers and at its Kherson shipyard, Smart is building a third tanker.
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