OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2012. Now in Ukraine licensed bus fleet consists of 75,000 units. Thus, of them, about 20,000 have service life more than 18 years. This was informed by First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Kostiantyn Efymenko during a briefing at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

"That is, 25.5% of licensed bus fleet needs replacing and updating," he said.

The Ministry of Infrastructure together with other relevant agencies are considering the possibility of compensation to domestic carriers for buying new buses.

"We will work out jointly with the Ministry of Economy and Finance Ministry the issue to allocation of about 600 million UAH for 2013 to compensate interest on the loan for our carriers for renewal bus fleet of domestic production," said Kostiantyn Efymenko.