The opening of the first five-star Sheraton hotel in Kyiv is scheduled for 2021.
“In 2021, Sheraton Hotels will continue on its transformation journey, with the brand expecting to showcase new guest experience programs and complete renovations in locations including Nashville, the United States; Toronto, Canada; Nice, France; Kyiv, Ukraine; and Xi’an, China,” according to a press release posted on January 28 by PRNewswire.
As reported, earlier in September 2020, the Board of Directors of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved the allocation of $27 million for building Sheraton Hotel in Kyiv.
The construction of the five-star Sheraton Kyiv Olympiysky hotel in the territory of the Olympiysky Stadium is being carried out by Construction Investment Company TM, which signed a hotel management agreement with the hotel operator Marriott Hotels & Resort.
According to the company’s website, Sheraton Kyiv Olympiysky is a 14-storey building with 196 rooms, 178 of which are standard rooms and deluxe rooms, 15 luxury rooms, two rooms for people with disabilities and one presidential room. The infrastructure includes an underground parking for 144 cars.
Construction Investment Company TM was founded in 2004, and its core business is construction of residential and non-residential buildings.
According to the unified public register, the founders of the company as of January 2021 were Telmox Limited LLC (50.5%), Wayall Limited LLC (35.5%) and Ihor Tarasulov (14%).
The charter capital is UAH 5 million.
In 2020, Ukraine exported fruit and berry products worth $238 million, which is 8% less than a year earlier, and is associated with quarantine restrictions and complication of customs procedures at the borders, the Ukrainian Agricultural Export Association (UAEA) reported on Friday.
According to the association, 92% of total exports were frozen fruits and berries ($111 million), walnuts in shell and without shell ($ 98 million), as well as apples and pears ($10 million).
According to the association, in kind, the export of walnuts decreased 41.2%, to 39,000 tonnes, and apples and pears – 64.3%, to 19,000 tonnes, at the same time, the export of frozen fruits was the maximum for the period of independence of Ukraine reaching 55,000 tonnes.
The UAEA reported that sales of Ukrainian fruits, berries and nuts to the EU countries in 2020 provided 77% of the total revenue from these products. Most of these products were bought by Poland ($57.7 million), France ($19.7 million), Germany ($17.2 million), the Netherlands ($11.6 million), Italy ($11.5 million), Austria ($11.2 million), the Czech Republic ($9.6 million) and Greece ($9.5 million). Turkey ($10.5 million) and Belarus ($9.2 million) are other major trading partners.
The association said that the average price of Ukrainian apples in 2020 grew by 1.5 times, to $500 per tonne, frozen fruits and berries – by 13.6%, to $2,023 per tonne, and shelled walnuts – by 5.1%, to $3,000 per tonne.
TOP 20 countries of Ukraine’s foreign trade partners in Jan-Oct of 2020 (thousand USD).
Main trade partners of Ukraine in % from total volume (export from Ukraine to other countries) in Jan-Oct of 2020.
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Main trade partners of Ukraine in % from total volume (import from other countries to Ukraine) in Jan-Oct.
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Citizen of China Wang Jing and affiliated Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd; Beijing Skyrizon Aviation Industry Investment Co., Ltd (both based in Beijing); Skyrizon Aircraft Holdings Limited (the British Virgin Islands) and Hong Kong Skyrizon Holdings Limited (Hong Kong), which have been trying in recent years to realize the rights of PJSC Motor Sich shareholders in Ukraine, have been included in the sanctions list of Ukraine.
According to the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) and the decree of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky dated January 28 (No. 29), the sanctions imposed on them for three years provide, in particular, the blocking of assets, restriction of trade operations, partial or complete cessation of transit of resources, flights and transportation on the territory of Ukraine.
Other restrictions include preventing the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine, a complete ban on transactions with securities of which they are issuers, and a ban on the purchase of enterprises in Ukraine.
The list of sanctions also includes a ban on increasing the size of the charter capital of business entities in which the persons under sanctions own 10% or more, and the cancellation of official visits, meetings, negotiations on signing contracts or agreements.
