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Business Focus: Recycling & Waste Management

Editor’s Note: Business Focus: Recycling & Waste Management takes a look at how Ukraine manages and recycles its waste. All articles are written …
Alexander Query

Kyiv Post webinar: Private sector support crucial for infrastructure development (VIDEO)

Ukraine needs between $10 and $12 billion a year of infrastructure spending, but its government is only providing $1.5 billion. Arup Banerji, the …
Max Hunder
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Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Watch Kyiv Post webinar — ‘Ukraine’s Infrastructure Needs: What’s The Cost?’

Infrastructure is the lifeblood of any economy. Ukraine is situated ideally with two seas, navigable rivers, many airports and an extensive network of …
Brian Bonner

Government plans to build 2 airports in Donbas

The government is planning to build two airports in the Donbas region, according to a statement published on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s website on …
Asami Terajima

Kyiv’s strained water pipes burst, endanger residents

In early July, a video surfaced on social media of a woman falling into a hole full of boiling water that suddenly burst open in the sidewalk in …
Max Hunder

Ukrzaliznytsia suffered a $62 million net loss in Q1, was involved in a fraud scheme

Ukraine’s railway monopoly Ukrzaliznytsia suffered a net loss of Hr 1.7 billion ($62.4 million) during the first quarter of 2021, according to a …
Asami Terajima

South Korean company Caris plans to invest $60 million in recycled plastic guardrail factory

South Korean company Caris, a manufacturer of plastic road guardrails and other road safety infrastructure, has announced plans to build a plant in …
Asami Terajima

Ukraine sells its first prison to private investor for $13 million

An unusual lot went under the hammer at an online auction on June 3 in Ukraine — an abandoned former state prison in Lviv. The 39,800-square-meter …
Natalia Datskevych

‘Everything is wrong’ at state Ukrzaliznytsia rail monopoly

State railway monopoly Ukrzaliznytsia, or UZ, employs 250,000 people who were recently threatening to strike for better working conditions and higher …
Mark Rachkevych

Road agency fights corruption, tries to rebuild Ukraine’s roads

President Volodymyr Zelensky might actually get his wish to be remembered as the president who built good roads. As part of the president’s …
Liliane Bivings

Ukraine seeks to revive water transportation to meet EU ‘green deal’ standards

Ukraine’s network of 13 sea and 16 river ports that include eight to 10 river terminals were the topics of discussion on the second day of the …
Mark Rachkevych

Seeing investment promise in Ukraine’s outdated infrastructure

The nuts and bolts of what consists of Ukraine’s infrastructure and the potential it has to boost Ukraine’s economy as it struggles to emerge from the …
Mark Rachkevych

Business Focus: Renewable Energy

Editor’s Note: Business Focus: Renewable Energy takes a look at Ukraine’s renewable energy market — its problems and achievements. All articles are …
Kyiv Post

Ukraine racks up $1 billion in debts with no way to pay them

After cutting the green tariff, once Europe’s highest guaranteed price for renewable energy producers, Ukraine is still struggling to pay it and cover …
Igor Kossov

Ukrainian households turn to solar panels

Ukraine’s renewable energy giants are suffering losses as the government struggles to pay off $1 billion in debt it owes them for green …
Daryna Antoniuk

Ukraine’s biomass energy has ways to weather green tariff crisis

The abundance of agricultural and forestry waste in Ukraine makes biomass a promising alternative energy source. There’s only one problem — the green …
Alexander Query

Mobile applications & websites help reduce and recycle waste

Going green is not just a fad nowadays — it’s a common responsibility. And with all the technology and information available, never before has it been …
Daryna Antoniuk

Ukrainian companies turn garbage into business, with aim to save environment

Ukraine produces nearly 474 million tons of waste every year and almost all of it ends up in landfills — 9,000 hectares of land covered with garbage …
Daryna Antoniuk
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