KYIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – State-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport has designed the air ticket cheapening program thanks to discounts to airport charges.
Commercial Director of the airport Maksym Voloshyn said at a press conference on Thursday that the discount system aims at cheapening flights, expanding the route network, increasing the share of transit passengers, boosting transportation and airport’s income and attracting low cost airlines. It is planned to set a discount for new international flights to the take-off and landing fee in the first year in the amount of 80%, second year – 60%, third year – 40% and fourth year – 20%. In addition, the 80% discount is proposed for a transit passenger.
Voloshyn said that the discount to the passenger fee will apply proportionally to growth of passenger flow from 100,000 people.
Boryspil Airport Director General Pavlo Riabikin said that the airport has prepared a new public offer for airlines. He said that one of its requirements will be obligatory display of the discount provided by the airport in the ultimate price of the ticket.
“The Infrastructure Ministry has drawn up a project foreseeing the reduction of charges. We have made our homework,” he said.
Boryspil International Airport is the main airport of Ukraine. The airport has two runways: one with a length of 4,000 meters and a width of 60 meters, and the second with a length of 3,500 meters and a width of 63 meters. Four passenger terminals, postal and cargo complexes are located on the territory of the airport.
LVIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – China’s Grandblue Environment Co Ltd. seeks to build an incineration plant in Lviv region, Lviv Regional Administration has reported.
The press service of the administration said that representatives of the company gave this information on Thursday at a meeting with Lviv Regional Administration Head Oleh Syniutka.
The Chinese firm intends to build the incineration plant with a daily capacity of 320 tonnes that would generate heat and power in Chervonohrad.
The press service said that it will take about six months to design the blueprints and then they will be approved. The company eventually will start implementing the project.
KYIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the launch of a pilot project to sell small facilities being privatized via the ProZorro.Sales platforms.
The decision was made at a government meeting on Thursday.
“Jointly with the State Property Fund and the Economic Development and Trade Ministry worked out a pilot project and proposals for the pilot project to start small privatization using the ProZorro tool and trigger the process at open electronic auctions… If it is success, we will be able to expand it to sale of most of small facilities being privatized,” Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Vitaliy Sayenko said.
First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Maksym Nefyodov said that amendments to the internal resolutions of the State Property Fund are to be made to launch the pilot project and harmonize the fund’s procedures with the ProZorro procedures.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that the launch of the project would allow selling small state-owned enterprises in a transparent way, relaxing the process for buyers, removing corruption and red tape from the process.
KYIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – After the European Union (EU) introduces a visa free regime for Ukrainian citizens some countries of Latin America and Asia would also introduce the visa free regime for the country, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.
“One more pleasant news: over 35 countries of Latin America and Asia that signed visa free agreements with the EU would automatically allow Ukrainians to travel to these regions,” he said in an interview with 1+1 TV channel late on Thursday.
He also recalled that Ukrainians will be able to travel to Norway, Switzerland and Lichtenstein without visas.
KYIV. May 11 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency Philip Illienko has said that it may take five years of active government support to make the Ukrainian film industry self-sustained.
“We must admit that the budget allocated to support filmmaking in 2017 (UAH 500 million) is the largest budget for film production in the history of an independent Ukraine, and it allows us to say that there is an intense development. We are beginning to feel a shortage of creative personnel,” Illienko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday answering a question from Interfax-Ukraine.
He noted that the Ukrainian State Film Agency currently supports 90 projects, including 50 feature films.
“There is a serious need to talk about the development of film education. At present, we understand that we need to make a considerable investment in professional education, enabling Ukrainian students to travel… at the state expense to study abroad,” Illienko said.
At the same time, he noted that despite the active development, the film industry in Ukraine has not yet become self-sustained, but if the state continues to actively support the film production for at least five years, then the industry may start to develop independently.
“I think that if the government support of the Ukrainian filmmaking continues for at least five consecutive years, the Ukrainian film industry will reach a level of self-sustainability, when it will be possible to talk about changing approaches…” Illienko said.
KYIV. May 11 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine has sown 5.9 million hectares (ha) with spring grain and leguminous crops, which is 82% of the target as of May 10, 2017, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has said.
In particular, 168,000 ha of the area was sown with wheat, which is 95% of the target, spring barley was sown on 1.56 million ha (95%), oats on 197,000 ha (95%), peas on 379,000 ha (115%), and maize on 3.5 million ha (78%), buckwheat on 34,000 ha (24%) and oats on 20,000 ha (25%).
Sugar beet crops cover 306,000 ha (104%), while 4.2 million ha (78%) was sown under sunflower crops and 1.1 million ha (56%) under soybean crops.
As was reported earlier, the ministry said that 7.2 million ha would be under spring grain crops in 2017. Of the area, 2.4 million ha will be sown with early grain crops.
