KYIV. Feb 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Official car importers have started importing electric cars to Ukraine. At the current stage the start of electric car sales is not a commercial project, but promotion of the product. Buyers should be prepared for it and infrastructure should be arranged.
“We have started importing electric cars officially at the end of last year. Of course, there is no large demand on them, but there is hope that a crucial point will be seen in the near term when the price of the car and the price of electricity will meet in one point and boom of their sales starts,” Director AWT Bavaria (BMW cars) Oleksandr Tymofeyev said during the discussion of the development of the Ukrainian automobile market late on Monday.
He said that taking into account the current state of the market and the necessity of receiving profit this is not a commercial project now. However, promotion of electric cars to the market requires a lot of time and funds.
“Advantages of these cars should be explained to consumers. The owners of the cars would come to the servicing centers less often. For example, the electric cars do not have lubricants, but they have recuperation boosting the lifespan of brake pads by two or three times if it is used wisely. On the other hand, we need to write letters to fire-fighting service, as this is another fire-fighting system in case of a car accident – there is no petroleum, but there is electricity and voltage,” he said.
Board Chairman of Renault Ukraine Yana Minenko said that the company devoted itself to the issue in 2015 after seeing the interest of Ukrainians to these cars.
“Initially this is not a commercial project – how many these cars can be sold on the 50,000-60,000 car market? Today few official representatives show their interest in the issue. Mainly unofficial representatives who import the cars from the United States and the EU were present at a meeting of the working group at the Infrastructure Ministry at the end of 2016. However, the official network is broad today. If it is not involved in promotion, there is no sense to speak about the servicing of electric cars in Ukraine,” she said.
“Now electric cars are much more expensive than cars with ICE, and I support the initiative of the ministry to implement a comprehensive program to promote them in Ukraine,” Minenko said.
Commercial Director of Hyundai Motor Ukraine Hennadiy Chetverukhin also said that the company decided to be involved in the issue, taking into account growth of the Ukrainian market.
He supported the opinion first to create infrastructure. Large investment is required in the creation and equipping servicing stations.
He said that it is likely that when the electric car market development programs were realized, companies would face internal problems in Ukraine.
The Infrastructure Ministry said that as of November 2016 there were 1,630 electric cars in Ukraine. Their annual growth is 13.2%, and their share of total sales is 0.7%.
KYIV. Feb 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Shareholders in private joint-stock company Milk Alliance (Kyiv) have decided to increase charter capital by 35%, to UAH 37.1 million, the company has reported in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.
According to the report, the decision was made at a meeting of shareholders held on February 6.
Milk Alliance will privately place 8.2 million additionally issued ordinary shares with a face value of UAH 1. The market price and the placement price is UAH 1.07 per share.
The company would not attract an underwriter to place the shares.
The participant of the private placement is the only shareholder in the company – MilCo Holding.
PrJSC Milk Alliance is part of the eponymous group.
Milk Alliance unites Pyriatyn cheese factory, Bashtanka cheese factory, Horodenka, Trostianets, Novoarkhanhelsk and Zgurivka cheese factories, Zolotonosha butter factory, as well as Etalonmolprodukt and Etalon trade house sales companies.
KYIV. Feb 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Bulgaria’s Fisherman Investments LLC intends to acquire 2.724 million shares or 21.9999% of the share capital in private joint-stock company Kostopil Glass Plant (Rivne region), the company has reported in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.
Edmonton Developments Inc. (British Virgin Islands) will sell the shares. As of Q3 2016 the company held 21.9990% in the Ukrainian company.
The price of a share will be $0.12 or UAH 3.23.
As of February 7, 2017, Fisherman Investments and affiliated persons did not hold shares in the plant.
Kostopil Glass Plant was founded in 2000. Its core business is hollow glass production.
KYIV. Feb 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrtsukor national association of sugar producers forecasts that sugar exports from Ukraine in the 2016-2017 marketing year (September through August) may reach 500,000 tonnes, which will be 4.4 times up year-over-year.
“Ukrainian producers have already shipped 409,700 tonnes of sugar onto foreign markets in the 2016-2017 marketing year. Therefore, sugar exports are likely to exceed 500,000 tonnes this marketing year,” Ukrtsukor quoted head of its analytical department Ruslan Butylo as saying.
In January 2017 alone, Ukrainian producers exported 65,150 tonnes of sugar to the tune of $32.6 million, which was half of the amount reported in December 2016.
Large shipments were sent to Turkey (12,887 tonnes), Sri Lanka (12,900 tonnes), Myanmar (5,600 tonnes), Switzerland (4,300 tonnes), Israel (4,300 tonnes), and other countries.
Wholesale prices in January 2017 grew by 5.5% on the average and are now within UAH 14.10-14.50 per kg, Butylo said. This was caused mainly by an increase in prices on the international market, as sugar on the London Stock Exchange went up in price by almost 4% over the period under review. Cane sugar on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed by 6%.
Ukrtsukor estimates demand on Ukraine’s domestic market in 2017 at about 1.54 million tonnes of sugar while 2 million tonnes of sugar has already been produced. Forty-two sugar refineries were in operation during the current season. They processed 13.66 million tonnes of sugar beets.
As was reported with reference to Ukrtsukor, Ukraine boosted sugar exports by almost 3%, to 113,000 tonnes in the 2015-2016 marketing year.
