BigConstruction

Thursday, September 14

The Turkish Onur Group plans to invest $500M in Ukraine and has already concluded new road construction contracts worth UAH 13B. The contractor for the presidential program Big Construction, the Onur Group, has invested more than $350M in nine business areas in Ukraine since 2021, said the general director of the Onur Group in ...

Thursday, February 10

A new bridge will be constructed between Ukraine and Moldova over the Dniester River. The Cabinet of Ministers approved a draft order on signing an agreement with Moldova on constructing a road border bridge over the Dniester River on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border near the villages of ...

Tuesday, February 8

In 2021, Ukraine spent three times more on roads than it had planned. The total state budget expenditures for road construction in 2021 amounted to UAH 132B ($4.7B), almost three times more than planned at the beginning of the year, announced the Economic Strategy Cente...

Monday, December 13

Kyiv bypass road project tender announced. The tender for the first section of the road was announced by Ukravtodor The cost of the works is UAH 5.4 bln ($166 mln). And the first part of the road is part of the construction of the 18 km sectio...

Monday, November 22

Ukraine plans to restore 557 km of roads in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the next two years. The Presidential program “Large Construction” includes the update and construction of more than 557 km of roads in the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the Minister for Infrastructure, Alexande...

Thursday, November 4

Ministry of Finance to invest ₴124.1 bln ($4.72 bln) in the development of road networks in 2022. The announcement was subject to receiving syndicated finance from the EBRD to: reconstruct the Kyiv Odesa highway (M-05); construction of the northern bypass of Lviv and Ternopil; reconstruction of a ...

₴1 bln ($38 mln) to be invested in the reconstruction of Kryvyi Rih airport. In an announcement on the Prozorro system, the renovation of the airport is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023. As part of the reconstruction, the interior and exterior must be renovated, ne...

Friday, October 8

Five projects for the construction of highways attract the interest of investors. Ukraine is actively looking for ways of effective cooperation between business and the state. Speaking at the Kyiv International Economic Forum, the Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, said, “Next year, I ...

Monday, August 16

With car traffic backing up at Kyiv’s five cross-Dnipro bridges, work is planned to expand the 1953 Paton bridge from seven lanes to eight and to add bicycle lanes in each direction , reports the Center for Transportation Strategies. In May, the Kyiv City State Administration also approved the first major renovation of the Metro road-rail bridge since it was built in 1965.

Friday, June 18

As part of President Zelenskiy’s ‘Big Construction’ program, Ukravtodor plans to build by 2025, the end of his term, 1,400 km of cement concrete roads on routes leading to Black Sea ports in Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv. Designed to take heavy traffic of fully loaded grain trucks, this network of cement roads will triple in size in three years, Andriy Ivko, said Ukravtodor’s road development director (Interfax-Ukraine...

Wednesday, June 2

In Donetsk, the state highway agency is rebuilding 12 bridges and the access road to the front line city of Avdiivka. In a multi-year project, Ukravtodor is rebuilding this summer the 625 km stretch of the M-14 between Odesa and Mariupol. This east-west road links the ports of the Azov and Black Seas, giving exporter...

Tuesday, May 11

To help pay for Ukraine’s ‘Big Construction’ program, the Cabinet of Minister has extended state guarantees to $360 million worth of hryvnia bonds for Ukravtodor. The Cabinet also approved a list of priority highway projects to be financed with the bonds...

Friday, April 30

Executives from Bechtel, the largest American construction company, were briefed yesterday by Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krikliy about public private partnerships to build highways in Ukraine. “We plan to attract in the medium term more than $9 billion in private investment to restore and maintain more than 4,500 kilometers of state roads,” Krikliy said of the program developed by the World...

Wednesday, April 28

Zakarpattia’s new airport is to cost almost $150 million to build, and is to be completed by the summer of 2024. This will be the end of President Zelenskiy’s current term. A priority for the government’s ‘Big Construction’ program, the airport is to have two 2,800-meter runways capable of handling A320 and B737...

Friday, April 16

In Paris today, President Zelenskiy will discuss the growing Russian military threat with French President, Emmanuel Macron, and with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who will join by video conference. The three countries – plus Russia – are members of the ‘Normandy’ format of peace talks. The Normandy group has not met since December 2019.

Tuesday, April 13

With the ‘Big Construction’ program running up government debt this summer, the government has approved extending state guarantees Ukravtodor for the hryvnia equivalent of $357 million in loans or bonds. Separately, the state highway agency has set up a unit to prepare for th...

Monday, April 12

Ukraine ranked second worldwide for projects undertaken by Turkish construction companies in 2020, said Burak Pehlivan, the Chairman of the International Turkish-Ukrainian Business Association, (Kyiv Post). Boosted by the Zelenskiy government’s ‘Big Construction’ program, Turkish companies have und...

Monday, April 5

The government’s ‘Big Construction’ program will invest in infrastructure for four industrial parks this year, Oleksiy Chernyshov, Minister for Community and Territorial Development, says according the government website. The announcement came at a meeting with Dragon Capital, which is building two industrial ...

Tuesday, March 30

The summer construction season has started, with work now underway on 215 roads and bridges across the country , Ukravtodor, the state highway agency, reports on Facebook. “The total length of facilities on which work has begun is 1,960 km,” the agency says. “The current plan for 2021 provides for the construc...

With Big Construction needing at least $1 billion in additional funding this year, one goal of the EBRD-Ukravtodor partnership is to create by this summer a joint stock company within Ukravtodor capable of generating capital by issuing infrastructure bonds. With international demand...

Work is to start this summer on the first two sections of the 150 km Kyiv Ring Road , Ukravtodor reports on Facebook. Of the six sections planned, the two priority sections add up to 43 km and will designed to link three highways west and south of Kyiv – the M-07 Kyiv-Kovel, the M-06...

A public-private partnership proposal is being prepared for the 280 km stretch of the E-40/M-10 from Rivne to the border with Poland, at Krakovets, Lviv region. The goal is to hold a tender next year to rebuild the highway. This work should cut the drive time to 2.5 hours, from four hours today. Ukravtodor and construction giant Avtomagistral-Pivden signed a ...

Thursday, February 25

“Similar funds operate in most developed countries “Similar funds operate in most developed countries – Build America, Infrastructure Canada, Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund, Polish Development Fund and more,” said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, d...

Private investors would buy sovereign-backed bonds issued by Ukravtodor Private investors would buy sovereign-backed bonds issued by Ukravtodor, Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital told the forum. “It is expected that the amount of investment attracted under state gu...

With the traditional March start of the roadbuilding season, Ukraine will see this year the largest amount of road construction since Independence 30 years ago. With the traditional March start of the roadbuilding season, Ukraine will see this year the largest amount of road construction since Independence 30 years ago. In all, 4,678 km of roads are to be reb...

Ukraine plans to disconnect from the electricity grid with Belarus and the Russian Federation by the end of 2023 Ukraine plans to disconnect from the electricity grid with Belarus and the Russian Federation by the end of 2023, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Tuesday at a press conference in Kyiv with Lithuan...

As outlined this week at the Presidential forum As outlined this week at the Presidential forum ‘Ukraine 30. Infrastructure’ the highlights of this year’s $5.3 billion ‘Great Construction’ are:

During this month’s cold snap, Russia and Belarus supplied about 3% of Ukraine’s electricity needs During this month’s cold snap, Russia and Belarus supplied about 3% of Ukraine’s electricity needs. Underproduction of electricity at nuclear power plants and a shortage of coal at thermal power plant...

Kyiv’s 150 km Ring Road Kyiv’s 150 km Ring Road – work starts on two sections; tenders are to be prepared on the other three sections

Despite this dependence Despite this dependence, Acting Energy Minister Yuriy Vitrenko told the Rada last month: “Reasonable import restrictions should be imposed right now.” Two weeks ago, he told the European Business Asso...

Kyiv-Odesa highway Kyiv-Odesa highway – the southern half will be rebuilt/repaired; for safety reasons, 21 of 23 left hand turns will be eliminated; most pedestrian crossings will be replaced with bridges or underpasses...

Ukraine started vaccinating yesterday against Covid-19 Ukraine started vaccinating yesterday against Covid-19, targeting doctors, nurses and soldiers. The first 500,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Kyiv Tuesday from the Serum Institute o...

Dnipro road bridges – Dnipro road bridges – work continues on the Zaporizhia bridges; work starts on the Kremenchuk bridge; Ukravtodor offers to take over from the Kyiv City Administration the 28-year-old Podil-Voskresensk...

Windrose Airlines plans to expand its domestic flight network this summer to have flights from Kyiv Boryspil to at least nine regional capitals, Windrose Airlines plans to expand its domestic flight network this summer to have flights from Kyiv Boryspil to at least nine regional capitals, Volodymyr Kamenchuk, Windrose CEO, said yesterday at th...

Border checkpoints Border checkpoints – 250 km of approach roads are to be upgraded; a bridge replace a ferry over the Dnistr, linking Yampil, Vinnytsia, and Cosăuți, Moldova. The Kyiv-Chisinau road will be upgraded to ...

Cement roads Cement roads – work is to double, focusing on southern roads where overloaded trucks headed to Black Sea ports damage asphalt in hot weather

M-30 highway M-30 highway – to be Ukraine’s longest road, stretching from Stryi, Lviv region to Luhansk, this 1,400 km East-West road is numbered after this year’s Independence anniversary

High speed charging stations for electric vehicles – increase stations on the most popular highways High speed charging stations for electric vehicles – increase stations on the most popular highways: Kyiv-Lviv, Kyiv-Odessa and Kyiv-Dnipro; add charging stations to the Orlivka, Ukraine terminal of t...

Tourism Tourism – work starts on repairing 320 km of mountain roads in the Small Carpathian Ring project, a tourism route in Lviv and Zakarpattia regions.

Social Social – 500 projects: 95 schools, 70 kindergartens, 80 sports facilities, 20 cultural facilities, 35 hospitals, 200 outpatient clinics.

Ukrposhta Ukrposhta – “100% digitalization” of the state postal operator; launching of 2,000 mobile post offices, five automated mail hubs and 10 sorting depots

The Kyiv School of Economics estimates this injection of money into construction will increase Ukraine’s GDP by 2.2% over the next five years The Kyiv School of Economics estimates this injection of money into construction will increase Ukraine’s GDP by 2.2% over the next five years. The study cites: increases in investment in transport, co...

Foreign investors are to get the chance to invest in this massive spending by buying sovereign-backed infrastructure bonds in a new $3 billion state fund Foreign investors are to get the chance to invest in this massive spending by buying sovereign-backed infrastructure bonds in a new $3 billion state fund, reports Ukravtodor, the state highway agency....