Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region) has completed the delivery of freight cars to Turkmenistan in the framework of a contract for the supply of 750 wagons signed at the beginning of 2016, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Services Hennadiy Zubko has said. “Six months ago we agreed…
Designing a 110 MW Leader-class icebreaker will take about a year and a half, Alexei Rakhmanov, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has said. “Then we will think when the first sections are to be laid down and when the construction is to begin. It will require more experiments, more science”, he said at…
Russian inventors from Aeromechanics Company unveil Micron gyrocopter. They’ve created what’s believed to be one of the smallest and lightest helicopters in the world. The invention weighs only 115 kilograms and can reach speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour. The chopper can easily take off from any landing site with a 10-meter diameter.…
A new modern dock, manufactured by UkrOboronProm Kherson State Plant “Pallada”, arrived to the customer in South Africa. The total contract value amounts to almost 250 million UAH. The dock was transferred in late April, at the presence of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, after 2.5 months the dock entered the port of the…
The U.S. General Electric Corporation on July 21, signed letters of cooperation with Ukraine’s Antonov State Enterprise and public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia. “We sign two strategic and political documents on cooperation with GE at the Infrastructure Ministry. This decision is not accident: we were mulling the positions of all players on the global market for…
The business court in Kherson region has declared public joint-stock company Kherson Shipyard, part of Smart Maritime Group (SMG) of Vadim Novinsky’s Smart-holding, bankrupt and launched a liquidation procedure. The company reported in the information disclosure of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market on Thursday that the court made its decision on…
Kazakhstan’s electric locomotives assembly factory (Elektrovoz Kurastyru Zauyty) will start production of high-speed passenger locomotives in autumn, the press service of Kazakhstan Railways (Kazakhstan Temir Zholy) said. The high-speed locomotives will be able to make 200 kilometers per hour. Such an electric locomotive – KZ4AT, designed by the French company Alstom – was successfully tested…