Korea: Seoul confirms Russian carrier rocket to put satellite into orbit in 2020

Seoul’s aerospace research institute confirmed that the Russian Angara-1.2 carrier rocket would put the South Korean KOMPSAT-6 satellite, also known as the Arirang 6, into orbit in 2020. Earlier this month, Roscosmos space corporation said in a statement that the KOMPSAT-6 multipurpose satellite would be launched using Russia’s Angara-1.2. “The ILS Angara 1.2 vehicle was…

Russia: Ilyushin Finance Co number of ordered CS300 down

The leasing company “Ilyushin Finance Co”. (IFC) has reduced the number of ordered Bombardier CS300 from 32 to 20 aircrafts. The delivery is expected in late 2018. The parties explain this adjustments differently. According to Bombardier’s opinion Russian customers consider new market’s demands, but IFC refers to the Canadian export agency, which hasn’t provided cheap…

Russia: VIM Airlines set for maiden A330-200

VIM Airlines is set to add a maiden A330-200 to its fleet. Formerly in service with EVA Air it was ferried from Lourdes/Tarbes to Dublin Int’l earlier this month for painting and maintenance ahead of its delivery to Russia. The aircraft is owned and managed by SMBC Aviation Capital. VIM Airlines operational fleet currently entails…

Ukraine: grain infrastructure in need of developing

At the beginning of the new 2016/2017 season Ukrainian grain market faced an unusually high demand for railroad transportation. Due to falling competitiveness of road transport for grain exports, an increased load on railway network revealed problems in grain infrastructure. This once again proves the need for further development and modernization of transport and logistics…

Ukraine: gas transit up in August 2016

The scheduled repair of Nord Stream for the period from August 9 through August 17 has resulted in a rise in Russian gas transit across the Ukrainian gas transport system to Europe by 20%, spokesman of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “Due to repair of Nord Stream gas pumping by Ukraine to…