Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

JENS STOLTENBERG ASKS NATO COUNTRIES TO PROVIDE MORE ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE

NATO member countries should actively help Ukraine, said Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg on Monday.
I urge all allies to provide more assistance to Ukraine in practice, he said during his speech in London.
Speaking about Kyiv’s desire for rapprochement with NATO, Stoltenberg noted that the reforms that Ukraine urgently needs will play an important role in this regard.

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RABEN OPENS DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN UMAN (CHERKASY REGION)

Raben Ukraine logistics company, a subsidiary of the international logistics company Raben Group (the Netherlands), has opened a new distribution center (cross dock) in Uman (Cherkasy region), the company’s press service has said.
The Uman distribution center, the 24th in the company’s network, will serve Uman, part of Cherkasy, Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad regions, and will make it possible to significantly reduce time for delivery of goods.
“Uman has a convenient geographical location, because it is located at the intersection of two major highways: E95, connecting the north and the south of the country, and E50, connecting the west and the east. The opening of a distribution center in Uman will help reduce delivery time by 24 hours,” director general of Raben Ukraine Inna Ocheretna said.
According to her, in the future the delivery of products requiring a special temperature regime from the new transportation center is being considered, which will cover the northern part of Odesa and Mykolaiv regions with services.
Raben Ukraine LLC, a subsidiary of the international logistics company Raben Group, has been operating in the logistics market since 2003. Its branches are located in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, and Rivne. It has about 70,000 square meters of warehouse space (including regions) and almost 600 vehicles in the fleet.

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STEF DU PLESSIS WORKSHOP “HOW TO CREATE A WINNING WORKPLACE CULTURE” TO TAKE PLACE IN KYIV

Oct 22, 2019 | Ramada Encore Kyiv
The unwritten rules (Unwritten Ground Rules) or UGRs build the real atmosphere about “how does it work” in the company. They are the drivers of human behavior, but they rarely speak openly. Although UGRs are the components of workplace culture in the company.
“Understand UGRs and you’ll understand corporate culture,” advises Stef du Plessis.
Stef du Plessis is an international expert on the creation of effective workplace culture and employee engagement. He helps companies to improve their final results by implementing organizational changes and transformations of companies or individual teams. Stef gives a ” Unwritten Ground Rules ” – simple and effective methods for the improvement of working atmosphere in the team and to creating a workplace of the winner, which is able every day to surpass myself and inspire others to show their best qualities in relation to colleagues and clients.
If your employees happy will be happy, your customers your customers will be happy too!
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AT THE WORKSHOP YOU WILL LEARN:
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UKRAINE’S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM WINS 2:0 LITHUANIAN TEAM

Ukraine’s national football team won 2:0 in a match of the EUFA Euro 2020 qualifiers with the Lithuanian team in Kharkiv.
The 29-minute and 58-minute brace of Ukrainian football player Ruslan Malinovsky, who is now midfielder in Italy’s Atalanta, brought victory for Ukraine.
Portugal’s team defeated Luxembourg 3:0 in other match of Group B.
Ukraine is the leader in its group with 16 score in six matches. Portugal and Serbia have 11 and 7 scores respectively in five matches.
Ukraine will host Portugal in Kyiv on October 14.

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NOVA POSHTA LAUNCHES AIR DELIVERY SERVICE IN UKRAINE

The Nova Poshta Group from October 10, 2019 launched the air delivery service for nine settlements of western Ukraine and 16 settlements in the East of the country, the company has reported.
Surcharge for the service at standard rates is UAH 30 per kilogram.
The new service allows you to provide daily delivery between cities in the west and east of Ukraine. “For example, if you send a parcel before 15:00 in a Mukachevo branch, it will be delivered to the Mariupol branch by 18:00 the next day. It will be the same, if one sends it on the Zaporizhia-Sambir route. Flights on the Lviv-Dnipro-Lviv route are operated from Monday through Friday weekly,” the group said in the report.
The customer receives guaranteed delivery the next day. If the company does not have time to deliver on time, the client will receive compensation for the full cost of delivery.
One can order the air delivery service for parcels up to 30 kg in the branches, while the delivery will be only on weekdays.
Currently, one can order the air delivery service in the offices of nine settlements of western Ukraine (Lviv, Mukachevo, Uzhgorod, Drohobych, Mostyska, Novoyavorovsk, Sambir, Stryi and Chervonohrad) and 16 cities of the east and south of the country (Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kamianske, Kremenchuk, Kryvy Rih, Kropyvnytsky, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Novomoskovsk, Pavlohrad, Poltava, Severodonetsk, Sloviansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson).
Nova Poshta plans to expand the geography of air delivery.

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UKRAINE EXPORTS MORE THAN 15 MLN TONNES OF GRAIN

Ukraine since the beginning of the new 2019/2020 marketing year (MY, July-June) as of October 11, 2019 had exported 15.096 million tonnes of grain and legumes, which is 4.6 million more than on the same date of the previous MY.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, to date, Ukraine has exported 9.6 million tonnes of wheat, 3 million tonnes of barley, and 2.4 million tonnes of corn.
As of October 11 this year, farmers had exported 92,800 tonnes of flour.
As reported, with reference to the ministry, in the 2018/2019 MY farmers exported a record 50.4 million tonnes of grain, legumes and flour, which is 23% more than in the previous MY.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in September raised its forecast for grain exports for the 2019/2020 MY by 400,000 tonnes compared with the August forecast, to 54.44 million tonnes.

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