KYIV. July 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Professions in the field of agriculture and IT business will be most in demand among employers in the near future, Serhiy Marchenko, the director for the development of the work.ua job search website.
“I can advise applicants to pay attention to agriculture and IT business – these are the areas that are popular in Ukraine. Personnel managers from agrarian campaigns have been saying for many years that they have big problems with qualified agronomists, machine operators, zootechnicians,” Marchenko said at a press conference in Kyiv.
According to him, agrarian specialization is promising in Ukraine also because sooner or later the land market will start in the country, which will attract investments.
As for IT business, according to Marchenko, this sphere is promising all over the world.
“And, of course, robots will no soon replace these specialists,” he said.
KYIV. July 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – AIS group of companies, a large Ukrainian automobile holding, is entering the market of electric vehicles imported from the United States, according to a press release from the company.
“In connection with the growing demand for electric vehicles and the rapid development of electric power station networks in Ukraine, AIS Market, the trade and service enterprise of AIS Group, specializing in the sale and servicing of used cars, began importing Nissan Leaf electric vehicles,” the report says.
According to the company, due to high driving performance and dynamic characteristics, Nissan Leaf is today the most popular and demanded electric car in Ukraine.
“AIS supplies Nissan Leaf electric cars with a confirmed service history of service, which previously were not involved in road accidents and with the minimum possible mileage for cars of 3-5 years old,” the press release states.
The cars imported by AIS have passed certification in Ukraine, complete customs clearance, pre-sale preparation. Their price starts from UAH 299,000.
AIS Market also provides buyers with the opportunity to buy cars on credit or leasing, guarantee of legality, legal cleanliness, confirmed mileage and technical condition of cars, free Assistance service, the possibility of acquiring KASKO and OSAGO insurance policies.
KYIV. July 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The International Exhibition Center LLC (IEC, Kyiv), the owner of the eponymous exhibition complex in Kyiv, intends to invest about UAH 160 million in the construction of a new pavilion with a two-storey exhibition hall of 12,500 square meters.
“According to our calculations, UAH 160 million is needed for the construction of the first stage. This amount will be partially made up from the funds of our enterprise and, of course, from credit money,” Anatoliy Tkachenko, the director general of the International Exhibition Center, told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the whole project is divided into 8 start-up complexes (queues), the implementation of which is planned for 3.5 years.
The second stage includes the construction of a multi-purpose hall for 2,500 spectators, the following stages include building a 13-storey office and hotel complex, another exhibition pavilion, underground multi-level parking lots for 736 cars, auxiliary technical and other service facilities.
“However, taking into account our experience, perhaps we will have to change the project – either to increase exhibition space or to strengthen the service part given certain changes in the situation in the market and in the economy as a whole. Therefore we cannot now talk about specific deadlines for the completion of the entire construction project, while a clear benchmark is only one – the introduction of first stage facilities is scheduled for autumn 2018,” Tkachenko said.
As reported, the International Exhibition Center starts the construction of new exhibition pavilions and facilities with a total area of 80,000 square meters.
KYIV. July 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Independent auditor Ernst & Young (EY, the Polish division) has won a tender for the selection of an adviser on the privatization of PJSC Centrenergo , the press service of the State Property Fund of Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the press service, Rothschild ranked second (also the Polish division).
In addition to these two companies, PwC Ukraine and KPMG Ukraine took part in the competition.
As reported, Centrenergo operates the Vuhlehirsk, Zmiyivska and Trypillia thermal power plants, which have a total installed capacity of 7,660 megawatts. The state owns 78.3% of the shares in the company.
KYIV. July 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrainian-Belarusian economic forum will take place in Kyiv on July 21 with the participation of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The event will include a plenary session, which will address the state, prospects and priorities of the Ukraine-Belarus economic and investment cooperation, conditions and advantages of doing business in Ukraine and Belarus, the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry reported on Facebook.
“During the forum, a regular meeting of the Ukrainian-Belarusian advisory council and B2B-talks between representatives of the business circles of Ukraine and Belarus will also take place,” the report said.
The administration of the president of Ukraine has not yet officially confirmed the participation of the two presidents in this event.
KYIV. July 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – State-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport (Kyiv), the largest airport of the country, on July 5, 2017 signed a contract with the largest European low cost airline Ryanair and sent it to the head office of the airline, Airport CEO Pavlo Riabikin has said.
“It took less than two weeks from the moment of cutting the basic fee for passenger servicing [amendments to the resolution of the Infrastructure Ministry], which was the man hindering financial factor. The contract has been approved by all airport’s services and external auditors who validate all outbound documents and contracts,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Riabikin said that the negotiations between the airline and the airport are process of achieving a compromise on the basis of mutual economic interest. The less politics we see the easier to find this compromise, he said.
