Uber launches food delivery service in Ukraine

The ride-sharing company Uber has launched a new service that aims to deliver emergency food in Ukraine.
The BBC said that the company cooperated in this regard with the World Food Program, after the process of delivering food by large trucks experienced difficulties in light of the military operation in Ukraine.
The Uber application provided assistance to the World Food Program to set up a network of delivery of aid through small vehicles, where the United Nations organization chooses its own drivers, some of whom previously worked with Uber in Ukraine before the outbreak of the crisis.
It is noteworthy that this service provided by Uber is an advanced version of Uber to deliver orders, and it is currently cooperating with giant companies, including Apple and Tesco, but Uber has waived the World Food Program for the commission it receives from companies and customers.

This cooperation allowed the World Food Program to coordinate the distribution and delivery of food, and to track drivers within 100 km of its warehouses. The service is currently being tested in the city of Nipro in central Ukraine, to be expanded to include four other cities, namely Lvov, Vinnytsia, Kiev and Chernivtsi.
It is noteworthy that the American company “Uber” had decided, last March, to add a “temporary fuel surcharge” to its trip prices, in order to help drivers pay record gas prices across America.
Uber explained in its blog that trip customers will pay an additional fee of $0.45 or $0.55 for each of the “Uber” trips, and customers of “Uber Eats” for delivery services will pay either $0.35 or $0.45 per single request, depending on the their location.
The additional petrol surcharge will be transferred entirely to drivers, and this plan will continue for the next 60 days.