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Dovhan, deputy Infrastructure Minister, posts on Facebook. Terminal D, the main international terminal, would be greatly expanded and the second runway would be rebuilt. After registering a 19% increase last year, to 12.6mn passengers, Boryspil expects to see a 14% increase this year, to 14.4mn passengers.
Targeting Germany, Ryanair starts flights in October from Boryspil to Hahn, Karlruhe/Baden-Baden, Nuremberg and Weeze; and from Odesa to Berlin-Tegel. Its Austrian unit, Lauda, starts flights in November to Stuttgart.
Lviv International Airport continues to post stellar passenger growth figures. Passenger numbers at Lviv International Airport grew by 51.9% year- on-year during the first four months of 2019 to surpass the half million mark for the first time as the airport maintained its position as a regional growth leader. Lviv airport serviced 524,000 passengers in the January-April period, up from 345,000 the previous year. This passenger growth rate was well above the average for Ukraine’s airports, which stood at 22% for the first quarter of 2019. Lviv was Ukraine’s busiest regional air hub in 2018, behind only Kyiv’s Boryspil and Sikorsky airports in terms of overall passenger numbers.
Proposed Dnipro region airport could handle 2-3 million passengers per year. A proposed new airport close to the village of Solone in Dnipropetrovsk region could service between two and three million passengers per year within five years if the project goes ahead, according to Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan, who says the project has already generated considerable interest among Ukrainian and international investors. Strategically placed between the cities of Dnipro and Zaporizhia, the new air hub is one possible solution to the lack of modern airport facilities servicing this heavily populated industrial region in southeastern Ukraine. Rival plans to redevelop the existing airport facilities in Dnipro continue to develop in parallel to design and preparatory works for the potential new airport at Solone.
● Trains
Despite farmers complaining about rail tariffs, the amount of grain moved by freight trains increased by 7% during the first quarter, to 28.6mn tons of grain. Over the last decade, Ukrzaliznytsia has doubled its grain volumes, from 15.5mn tons in 2008 to 33mn tons last year, Andrey Ryazantsev, the state railroad’s financial director, tells the centre for Transportation Strategies.
The EBRD is moving toward loaning €250mn to Ukrainian cities to modernize mass transit systems. On July 24, the EBRD board of directors is to review the project. It would largely involve paying for new buses, trolley buses, trams and subway cars. “The EBRD will sign loan agreements with relevant utilities transport companies, as well as agreements on guaranteeing and supporting projects with the cities,” the EBRD writes. “Each loan will be guaranteed by the municipality.”
● Ships
w a 140-meter long loading ship designed to move grain from Dnipro river boats to ocean-going Panamax freighters in the Black Sea. When fully completed four months from now, the Nibulon Max will have two German- made Liebherr grab cranes capable of moving 18,000 tons a day. With the autonomy of working offshore for 90 days at a time, the ship will help Nibulon’s 75-ship fleet double its annual cargo handling to 5mn tons, the company says.
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