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In March alone, 18,600 cars with mileages imported into the country acquired Ukrainian license plates, down 61% y/y, partly due to the fact that in the last two weeks of the month, service centres of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suspended registration of used cars over the [coronavirus] quarantine.
Imports of used vehicles continue to dominate on the primary market for passenger cars, the press service said. In March, out of 24,800 cars first registered in Ukraine, only every fourth was new. As a result, used cars that underwent customs clearance accounted for 75% of the vehicles that replenished the country's passenger car fleet last month.
In March, the Volkswagen Passat make remained in the lead with 1,099 used cars sold. The Renault Megane ranked second with 1,084 cars with mileage sold in the third month of the year. The Skoda Octavia was third with 982 used cars sold. The Volkswagen Golf model became fourth with 861 used cars registered. The Ford Focus ranked fifth with 695 cars with mileage sold and registered in March 2020.
9.1.3​ Transport sector news
● Planes
Passenger traffic at Ukraine’s airports was down 9% y/y during the first quarter​, reports Ukraine’s State Aviation Administration. January and February’s 15% growth compensated for a disastrous March. After Ukraine suspended all scheduled flights in mid-March, Kyiv Boryspil ended the month with traffic down 49.5%. Kyiv Sikorsky ended March down 65%.
President Zelenskiy would like to create “a state-owned modern airline ​– at the level of Turkish Airlines or Singapore Airlines.” This airline would fly Ukrainian-made Antonovs, he says in a film aired on Ukraine 24 to mark one year since his first electoral victory one year ago. At present, Antonov passenger planes – the An-148 and An-158 regional jets -- are not certified to fly in the EU. They are limited to flying domestically and to Belarus and Moldova. The proposal for a state airline comes as Ukraine’s two main international airlines – SkyUp and UIA – are asking the government for compensation for what could be three months without scheduled passenger service.
Ukraine’s air passenger traffic will only return to last year’s levels by the end of next year​, Krikliy predicts to the European Business Association. “If we start to recover a little in June, then by the end of the year we’ll reach about half of the passenger flow that was earlier,” he said in an online briefing. As for airlines and airports that are dying, he said: “There isn’t enough in the Ukrainian budget to save every enterprise.” For the quarter, traffic was down 35% y/y, to 417,400. One year ago, Kyiv’s city airport lost traffic with the move of SkyUp and most discount airlines to Kyiv Boryspil, which has more runway capacity.
Air cargo prices between China and Ukraine have tripled since the quarantine started​ one month ago, Avianews reports, citing Andrei Krivorotov, director of Kyiv’s Zammler Group of logistics companies. Previously, when 80% of air cargo was carried on passenger jets, the delivery
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