Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

KYIV ZHULIANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REDUCES PASSENGER TRAFFIC BY 25% IN AUG

Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport in January-August 2019 served 1.856 million passengers, which is 0.1% less than in January-August 2018.
According to statistics released by the airport’s press service, the number of passengers served on international flights for the eight months amounted to 1.808 million, on domestic routes some 47,900d.
The number of flights in January-August 2019 amounted to 19,663 for arrival/departure, which is 2.2% more than in the same period in 2018, including 16,491 international flights and 3,172 domestic.
The most popular international destinations for the indicated period were Minsk (Belarus), Warsaw (Poland), Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Rome (Italy), Ankara (Turkey), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany), internal – Odesa, Zaporizhia, and Lviv.
In August 2019, the airport served 265,700 passengers, which is 25.8% less than in August 2018. The number of passengers served on international flights amounted to 259,000, domestic some 6,700.
The number of flights in August amounted to 2,655 for arrival/departure, which is 18.5% less than in the same period in 2018, of which 2,245 international and 410 domestic.

UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT FIRES 36 DEPUTY MINISTERS

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Wednesday dismissed 36 deputy ministers and first deputy ministers from 12 ministries. In particular, Olha Trofimtseva, Viktor Sheremeta, Volodymyr Topchiy and Olena Kovalova were dismissed from the posts of deputy minister of agricultural policy and food.
Mykola Movchan, Yaroslav Voitovych, Mykola Danevych were dismissed from the posts of deputy ministers of sports, and Ihor Hotsul from the post of first deputy minister.
Yuriy Rybachuk and Tamara Mazur lost the posts of deputy ministers of culture.
Dmytro Zolotukhin was dismissed from the post of deputy minister of information policy, and Emine Dzhaparova was dismissed from the post of first deputy minister.
Roman Hreba and Maksym Strikha lost the positions of deputy ministers of education and science.
Ihor Pavlovsky was dismissed from the post of deputy minister of defense.
Svitlana Hlushchenko, Iryna Sadovska, Serhiy Petukhov, Ivanna Smachylo, Ivan Lishchyna, Denys Chernyshov were dismissed from the posts of deputy minister of justice, and Olena Sukmanova was removed from the post of first deputy minister.
Deputy ministers of health Pavlo Kovtonyuk and Oleksandr Linsky, as well as first deputy minister Ulana Suprun, were also dismissed.
Mykhailo Tytarchuk and Yuriy Brovchenko were dismissed from the posts of deputy minister of economic development and trade.
Lev Partskhaladze and Taras Tokarsky lost the positions of deputy ministers of regional development, construction, housing and utilities economy.
Hryhoriy Galagan was dismissed from the post of first deputy minister of veterans.
Deputy ministers for occupied territories and internally displaced persons Viktoria Voronina, Yuriy Hrymchak and Heorhiy Tuka also lost their posts. First deputy minister Yusuf Kurkchi was also fired.
Oleksandr Churkin was dismissed from the post of deputy minister of social policy.

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REIKARTZ OPENS APART-HOTEL IN KHERSON

Reikartz Hotel Management LLC (Kyiv), the managing company of the national hotel chain Reikartz Hotel Group, has signed an agreement on management of Rishelyevsky apartment hotel in Kherson on 40 Rishelyevska Street. As the hotel operator reported on its website, the apart-hotel will join the chain and since September 1, 2019 will start its work under the brand Raziotel Kherson.
A hotel room capacity is 50 rooms of various categories. Infrastructure includes a conference hall that can sit 100 persons, a lobby bar, and an indoor parking under guard.
Reikartz Hotel Management was set up in 2008.
According to the Unified Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs as of August 9, 2019, the participants of the company are Volodymyr Kashutin (Lviv) with 99.89% of shares, Identex-Ukraine LLC with 0.1%. The final beneficiaries, apart from Kashutin, are Leonid Lavrentyev and Timur Rodionov.
A charter capital of the company is UAH 60,900.
Reikartz began its activity in the field of hotel services in Ukraine in 2003 after a group of Belgian architects, led by Francois Ryckaerts, had acquired an old mansion in Drukarska Street in the center of Lviv.
Reikartz Hotel Group unites 42 hotels in Ukraine and two in Sweden and Germany.

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OFFICIAL RATES OF BANKING METALS FROM NATIONAL BANK AS OF SEPTEMBER 05

Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of September 05

One troy ounce=31.10 grams

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BUSINESSMAN VASYL KHMELNYTSKY PLANS TO BUILD RESIDENTIAL HOUSES IN INNOVATION PARKS

UFuture investment group of Ukrainian businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky plans to implement residential complex construction projects as part of the innovation parks in Lviv (LvivTech.City) and Kharkiv.
“They [projects in Lviv and Kharkiv] have housing, and innovation campuses, co-working space, schools, institutes,” Khmelnytsky told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
He did not specify who will be partners in these projects, but noted that the UDP company of their UFuture group cooperates with KAN Development only in the UNIT.City project.
The launch of LvivTech.City, according to Khmelnytsky, is planned for 2020.
UDP CEO Vitaliy Melnyk told Interfax-Ukraine that the area of the residential part in LvivTech.City will be 42,000 square meters, while the parameters of housing in the Kharkiv project are not yet known.
According to Managing Partner of UNIT.City Maksym Yakover, UNIT.City is already building residential housing, and the start of sales is planned for September.
“The first phase is now nearing completion [construction at UNIT.City]. We will soon open the B10 campus, and at the end of this year or the beginning of the next year – B11. Housing construction is in full swing, the start of sales will be announced in September,” he said at a press conference.

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MAIN TRADE PARTNERS OF UKRAINE IN % FROM TOTAL VOLUME (EXPORT FROM UKRAINE TO OTHER COUNTRIES) IN JAN-JUNE 2019

Main trade partners of Ukraine in % from total volume (export from Ukraine to other countries) in Jan-June 2019

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