Chinese expansion

If, due to some reasons the demand for original product can not be ensured, the market offers instead available substitute. It happened with the bus charter: on Ukrainian roads and streets of gaily colored running \u0026quot;King Longhi,\u0026quot; Shao Lini \u0026quot;,\u0026quot; Yutongi \u0026quot;and others of that ilk. Some of them, however, already \u0026quot;Chinese\u0026quot; can be called with difficulty: buses under the brand name \u0026quot;Yutong\u0026quot; already collected in Lutsk. On the other hand, buses, which produces \u0026quot;AntoRus\u0026quot; are suspiciously Chinese appearance. 

Some Chinese manufacturers supply to Ukraine and the medium-and long-haul airliners. For example, 45-local \u0026quot;Yuton-gi\u0026quot; already cruising on regular routes in the capital city of Nikolayev and Severodonetsk. Can be found on our roads and \u0026quot;halves\u0026quot; - middle-distance bus passen-zhirovmestimostyu 22-27 seats. Some tourism companies have started to use such technology to transport groups of tourists.

Unfortunately, the use of Chinese buses for the tourist industry also looks very prosperous. The main reason is that these machines are relatively short service life due to some structural failures. The most frequently encountered such problems:
small section of wiring, when overloaded, out of order;
soft metal;
meet single window;
problems with the supply of spare parts;
weak body.

Quality of local roads these parameters does not improve - quite the contrary. Thus, the projected lifetime of such a \u0026quot;Chinese\u0026quot; with intensive use will be 3, the strength of 4 years. So come to think of an old Japanese proverb: \u0026quot;We are not rich enough to buy cheap things\u0026quot; ... In addition, many models of Chinese buses have a complaint and have specialized structures of Ministry of Transport - in the words of one of the leaders of the State Enterprise \u0026quot;GosavtotransNIIproekt, many of them do not meet the requirements of active, passive, and environmental safety of transportation.

Exhibitions: nothing but frustration

Traditionally Ukrainian passenger carriers, and thus the tour operators, high hopes for specialized automobile exhibition. For example, SIA. However, the SIA-2008 tour operators nothing but disappointment, did not bring: a segment of tourist buses was submitted. as much an instance of the Chinese \u0026quot;King Long\u0026quot;. Despite the gloss and good information support, the overall impression was a sort of lonely. Surely among tour operators and passenger carriers no demand for this class of buses? Believe it is rather difficult. Perhaps, the producers simply \u0026quot;given up\u0026quot; on the Ukrainian market? This assumption is more likely, but, in our opinion, too far from the truth. However, in automotive circles, rumors are circulating that the organizers of the International Motor Show SIA simply increased the prohibitive cost of the exhibition area, resulting in the attractiveness of participation for the producers of automotive vehicles and trailers have dropped dramatically. Figuring out how these assumptions correspond to the truth goes beyond the purpose of this article. But, like anything, the domestic tourist operators SIA-2008 is not brought nothing but disappointment.

Market buses, including the tourist class in Ukraine is so emok that it would be rational to hold a separate exhibition on just this type of transport. Moreover, the experience of organizing such events have been: in March 2004 in Kiev with a stunning success has passed the first and, alas, the only exhibition \u0026quot;Bus-2004. Its ideological inspirer and organizer made by the Ministry of Transport, headed by the then Minister Georgy Kirpa, which, among other things, promised to hold such events regularly - every six months. Alas, in recent days, the same year George Kirpa died tragically - and with it sank into oblivion and specialized bus exhibition.

Bus \u0026quot;exotic\u0026quot;

Some travel companies still go to the inflated costs and buy new modern avtolaynery. Thus, in particular, the company receives, organizes cruises along the Dnieper and along the Black Sea coast under the name \u0026quot;Chervona Ruta\u0026quot;. Ship, arriving in Odessa, several modern tourist buses big passazhirovmesti-bridge, in which participants go on a cruise tour of the city and region. But these are isolated cases, which are also yielded promising results: all extra fees and charges for \u0026quot;rastamazhi-vanii\u0026quot; bus increases the cost of the cruise tours and, consequently, reduce the profits of the operator - for the price of cruises defines the market and inflate to infinity, they can not.

Some travel companies, particularly in the western regions of the country, hired to transport groups of tourists, foreign coaches, mainly Polish, Slovak or Hungarian. There are cases that the employer records specifically transport or travel company in the territory of neighboring countries - to move away from draconian customs duties and excise taxes, as well as access to cheap credit, and acceptable leasing schemes for the purchase of vehicles. After that, foreign coaches without any problems carrying a group of foreign tourists to travel to Ukraine, and Ukrainian - to leave.

This method of updating bus vacuum in the present circumstances would have looked quite promising, if not one \u0026quot;but\u0026quot;: Ukraine still has not formally joined the European Convention INTERBUS, which regulates the international non-scheduled passenger transport (although it actively uses some interbusovskimi instruments). Thus, leaving Ukrainian buses, which carry out non-scheduled transportation, and, therefore, tourist groups, as well as the entry of foreign coaches for the same purpose, is carried out by special permission - for occasional transport of passengers. And the annual quota of permits, usually small and is measured by several dozens, hundreds of copies on the strength (the maximum number of such documents is established between Ukraine and Poland - 500 units for each side). Finally join INTERBUSu Ukraine is not in a hurry, hence the massive expansion into the Ukrainian market kvaziinostrannyh buses, which are carried out regularly, including travel and transportation, can lead to the fact that the car belonging to the owner and the next one Ukrainian in Ukraine for the transport of Ukrainian same tour groups, just not from the border because of lack of permits.