KYIV. April 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – ByFrederic Group, whose core business is seed planting, agricultural machinery sales and servicing, plans to build a port terminal on the Kremenchuk water reservoir in Cherkasy region to ship agricultural cargo.
According to a post on the website of Cherkasy District Administration, a memorandum on the realization of the investment project worth up to EUR 20 million was signed by the district administration and Semtek LLC, part of ByFrederic Group.
“Now, technical documents are being prepared. It would take two or three years to build the port,” the marketing department director at ByFrederic Serhiy Silin told Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that the project foresees the construction of a terminal. An elevator with a storage capacity of 60,000 tonnes of agricultural products will be built at the port, and a railway line passes through the site. Also, the company will lease river transportation to ship cargo.
ByFrederic is an international agricultural enterprise specialized in seeds sales (maize, sunflower, rape, soybeans, etc.) as well as sales and services of agricultural equipment. Currently, the group of companies consists of seven representative offices: two of them are in Ukraine (Shpola, Cherkasy region and Kyiv), five of them are in Russia (Moscow, Saratov, Rostov, Krasnodar and Pavlovskaya), and the group also works in Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
The founder of the group is French citizen Frederic Chavigny.
