The Ukrainian tour operator GTO Travel and Kazakh Kompas have announced a merger and the beginning of work under the single brand Kompas.
Kompas CEO Anna Solovyova said at a press conference in Kyiv the company’s cooperation has begun and has been successfully continuing for several years.
“We have been cooperating for several years, during which we have implemented joint projects and gradually came to consolidation. This is not a new stage, it’s just an official announcement to become more transparent,” she said.
According to her, Kompas is committed to a transparent business.
“We have far-reaching plans. Of course, not this year and not the next one, but I want to get to an IPO, this is goal number one for me. I want to make tourism transparent and honest. We are striving for this. Therefore we are trying to consolidate and open up,” she said, noting that in 2017 the company entered the Kyrgyz market.
According to Head of GTO Travel Mykhailo Tiurin, the GTO Travel brand will be removed from use.
“It looks like the investment of the Kazakh tour operator in the Ukrainian one. The legal entity in Ukraine won’t change, it will include new founders, a consolidated management body will appear,” he said.
GTO Travel tour operator (Kyiv) was established in 2004. Its founders are Mykhailo Tiurin, Volodymyr Tiurin, Olena Tiurina, and Oleksandr Tiurin.
The company sends tourists to 61 countries.
The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) has placed information about Euro Ukrposhta LLC (Chernivtsi) and Sky Logistics LLC (Kyiv) to the unified public register of postal operators.
According to a posting on the website of the commission, the decision was made on October 2, 2018.
Euro Ukrposhta provides services for receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal money transfers throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories) as well as internationally from the territory of the European Union and the Middle East: Israel, Turkey, Egypt and Syria.
Sky Logistics provides services of receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal orders throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories).
According to the public register of companies and individual entrepreneurs, Euro Ukrposhta has a charter capital of UAH 5,000 and registered in Chernivtsi. The company’s owners are two individuals: Roman Makoviychuk and Oleksandr Timush.
The company Sky Logistics has a charter capital of UAH 48,000 and registered in Kyiv. Its founder is individual Oleksiy Hryniuk.
In February, PJSC Ukrposhta turned to Euro-Ukrposhte LLC with a proposal to inform its customers that the latter is not related to the state-owned enterprise.
EURO UKRPOSHTA, POSTAL OPERATORS, REGISTERS, REGULATOR, SKY LOGISTICS
The forecast balance of electricity of Ukraine for 2019 approved by Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk on September 28, 2018, envisage growth of electricity consumption by 1.7% (2.5 billion kWh) compared with the projected figures for 2018, to 153.5 billion kWh.
According to the document, the export of electricity is provided in the amount of 6.42 billion kWh, which is 9.5% higher than the figure in the forecast balance of 2018 (5.855 billion kWh).
The improvement in the forecast is due to the expected growth in supplies to Moldova (a rise of 2.4%, to 1.08 billion kWh), Poland (a rise of 20%, to 1.44 billion kWh) and from Burshtyn Island ( a rise of 8.3%, up to 3.9 billion kWh).
Electricity imports in 2019, as in the current year, are not planned.
The following sources remain the main sources of covering demand for the next year: NPPs – 83.045 billion kWh (a fall of 1.5% compared with the 2018 balance), TPPs – 50.837 billion kWh (a rise of 4.1%), CHPP and cogeneration plants – 12.544 billion kWh (a rise of 6.4%), HPPs – 8.9 billion kWh ( a fall of 0.6%).
It is planned that alternative sources (wind farms, solar power plants and other plants) will increase the production of electricity by 72.4%, to 3.5 billion kWh, blocking stations – by 1.2%, to 1.626 billion kWh, while pump storage power plants’ generation will be reduced by 22.1%, to 1.412 billion kWh.
PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia plans to start works to electrify the Dolynska-Mykolaiv-Kolosivka rail section in March 2019.
The company said that the ratification of the financial agreement between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank (EIB) under the Ukraine Railway Modernization Project by the Verkhovna Rada would allow launching an open tender to select a general contractor to electrify the Dolynska-Mykolaiv-Kolosivka rail section.
The company expects to use the first tranche at the end of May 2019. The minimum size of the tranche is EUR 5 million, and the total number of tranches will be up to 20, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said.
The project provides for two phases of implementation: work on the Dolynska-Mykolaiv section (the operational length is 148 km) is scheduled from March 2019 to May 2023, and on the Mykolaiv-Kolosivka section (105 km) from June 2019 to October 2021.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada has ratified a financial agreement (Ukraine Railway Modernization Project) between Ukraine and the EIB on the provision of a EUR 150 million loan to Ukraine, foreseeing funding of the modernization and expansion of the Dolynska-Mykolaiv-Kolosivka railway section.
In January 2018, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the project on the reconstruction of the Dolynska-Mykolaiv railway section with increased capacity of the Znamianka-Dolynska-Mykolaiv section.
On December 19, 2016 a financial agreement on the Ukraine Railway Modernization Project (modernization of the infrastructure of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia) was signed with the EIB, which provides for a loan of EUR 150 million.
DOLYNSKA-MYKOLAIV-KOLOSIVKA, ELECTRIFICATION, RAIL SECTION, UKRZALIZNYTSIA
Syngenta, one of the world’s largest producers of plant and seed protection agents, has opened a Digital Innovation Lab in Kyiv, the sixth platform in the company’s global network of laboratories. “Our laboratories in other countries focus on researching and studying consumer demand for digital products, developing concepts and creating prototypes of products. The Ukrainian laboratory will complement their work by offering a full cycle of developing solutions – from research and modeling of test samples of digital products to creating working versions ready for launch with real users and integrated with Syngenta systems,” Benjamin Ninio, the head of the global direction of digital technologies at Syngenta, said during the opening of the company’s laboratory.
According to him, over the past year and a half Syngenta has launched five similar projects in different countries of the world. Now the laboratories operate in the United States, China, India, Singapore, and the UK.
The laboratory office in Kyiv is located in the innovative and technological park Unit.city.
Syngenta is one of the world leaders in plant protection and seed production. The company employs 28,000 people in more than 90 countries of the world.
DIGITAL INNOVATION, LAB, SYNGENTA, TECHNOLOGICAL PARK, UNIT.CITY
Almost 18.9 million persons signed declarations with family doctors in the primary healthcare reform, Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Kovtonyuk has said. Speaking at the seminar entitled “The First Results of Healthcare Reform: the Experience of the Regions” at the Public Health international exhibition in Kyiv, he reported, referring to the data of the National Health Service of Ukraine that at present, about 45% of Ukrainians are registered with family doctors. At the same time, Kovtonyuk said that “Kyiv is an almost complete outsider in the number of declarations” – 1.149 million declarations were signed in Kyiv, which is below the national average.
At the same time, in the leading cities of the reform declarations were signed by up to 73% of the population, in particular, in Chervonohrad (Lviv region). In Ovruch (Zhytomyr region) declarations were signed by 68% of residents, Vinnytsia and Pokrovsk (Donetsk region) – 65% each, Novohrad-Volynsky (Zhytomyr region) – 63%, Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Pervomaisk (Mykoklaiv region) – 61% each.
The primary healthcare institutions which have switched to a new mechanism for financing services after the first stage of signing agreements with the National Health Service of Ukraine received UAH 819.8 million in July-September 2018. In particular, UAH 266.8 million was sent to 30 healthcare institutions of Kyiv. Kovtonyuk said that residents of rural areas more active in signing declaration with family doctors compared with urban residents.
