KYIV. April 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Eco-Bud-Trade LLC (Kyiv) has won a tender to build the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge in Kyiv held on March 31, the press service of Kyiv City Administration has reported.
Director of the construction and housing provision department of Kyiv City Administration Kostiantyn Fedotov said that the tender to build the bridge was held for two sections. Eco-Bud-Trade LLC won the two lots.
According to the report, the company proposed to build a section across the Dnipro River for UAH 4.3 billion, while works on the left bank would cost UAH 1.7 billion. Some works are to be completed in 2017.
“The top priority task for this year set before the winner of the tender will be completion of works in the section across the Dnipro River,” Fedotov said.
As reported, the city has arranged with participation of Head of Kyiv City State Administration Vitali Klitschko the examination of the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge by German specialists. Germany has provided EUR 200,000 for this purpose.
The authorities hope that urban traffic movement across the bridge will be launched in three years.
KYIV. April 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Chemical concern BASF saw a 12% rise in sales in Ukraine.
“BASF in Ukraine increased sales by 12% last year. The key business segments showed growth of over 10%. This is linked to general development of sectors and the launch of several partner projects with leading Ukrainian companies,” BASF Managing Director in Ukraine Andreas Lier said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that in 2016 the project on fortification of sunflower oil (adding fortified vitamin A) was realized with two Ukrainian producers and exporters. This helped the companies to enter Asian and African markets.
Another project realized by BASF in Ukraine was designing of BASF solution for the largest refrigerator manufacturer in Ukraine. The project helped to create products not using Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS).
Lier said that last year BASF business in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions expanded within 15-20%.
“If social and economic development resumes, in particular, growth of the key economic sectors for the company, BASF in Ukraine would be able to reach the same growth in 2017 or even improve its results,” he said.
The managing director said that BASF in Ukraine supports companies in certification of products, facilitation of access to new markets and cooperates with associations in drafting legislation.
BASF is the largest chemical company in the world with six integrated production platforms and 352 production facilities all over the world. The company’s portfolio is organized into five segments: chemicals, performance products, functional materials & solutions, agricultural solutions and oil & gas.
KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian Sea Port Authority plans to send UAH 966 million to develop berth infrastructure by the end of this year, Authority Head Raivis Veckagans has said.
“We would receive the most optimal work of contractors in the port infrastructure in terms of the price only after considerably expanding competition at tenders of the authority and opening the market to world-renowned companies. We are facilitating the blueprints documents in line with FIDIC international standards. This would provide for the trilateral analysis of projects, transparency of the process and the indispensable attribute “quality,” he said at the Port Infrastructure Development Day organized by Ukrainian Sea Port Authority jointly with the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine in Kyiv on Tuesday.
At the event the authority presented plans to develop port infrastructure for coming years to leading global contractors.
Veckagans said that the blueprints approval procedures for construction of facilities using budget funds should be relaxed. The authority has drawn up draft amendments to relevant government resolutions.
“Their adoption would help to remove the double blueprint approval procedure, relax capital investment process and reduce time for approval of projects to two years. Soon we will discuss our proposals with experts and business,” he said.
President of the American Chamber of Commerce Andy Hunder said that the public presentation of plans to develop port infrastructure helps to provide for transparency of tenders.
“Business and Ukrainian Sea Port Authority are interested not only in informing on the current and future projects at ports, but first in carrying out works, especially for announced capital investment in the amount of around UAH 3.5 billion for construction and reconstruction of berths and dredging works. The implementation of the announced projects, including the start of new ones approved by the government should be reflected in the financial plan of the authority. This would allow using the declared investment,” Hunder said.
Deputy Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Lev Partskhaladze who was present at the event said that it is important to build port infrastructure sticking modern technologies and solutions.
“Both reconstruction and new construction of ports should be carried out only using modern technologies. One of the key tasks of the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry is brining construction requirements in line with international principles, taking into account newest technologies. Our country has a large potential in the implementation of these projects,” he said.
KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Public joint-stock company State Food-Grain Corporation seeks to buy first 500 out of 3,000 grain wagons planned for purchase by the end of 2017 from Ukrainian manufacturers, Deputy Board Chairman of State Food-Grain Corporation Andriy Zadiraka said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“During six months we had held difficult talks with our Chinese partner and today we have reached agreement to buy a first batch of grain wagons. Now several Ukrainian manufacturers are being discussed. I think that after completing the national approval procedure soon we will buy first 500 wagons by the end of this year,” he said.
Zadiraka said that the company is mulling the purchase of wagons from large suppliers – Kriukiv Car Building Works, Dniprovahonmash and Karpaty plant.
“We have proposed to the Chinese corporation to consider the provision of around 420 million from the funds of the credit line, taking into account a shortage of wagons on the market. The only problem that we started the talks six months ago, and the price of wagons is gradually growing,” he said.
The government in August 2010 decided to create the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine. The corporation has a chain of branches, comprised of grain storage facilities, flourmills, fodder factories and a cereals factory. The 53 subdivisions of the corporation can store a total of 3.75 million tonnes of grain, which includes the grain handling capacities of Odesa and Mykolaiv ports of some 2.5 million tonnes of grain cargo per year.
KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects that Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada will adopt a law on agricultural land circulation in May 2017 that will allow for the removal of the moratorium on land sales.
“Parliamentary approval of the law on agricultural land circulation is expected by end-May 2017 (a modification and new deadline for the missed end-September 2016 structural benchmark), allowing for the current moratorium on the sale of agricultural land to expire by the end of 2017,” reads a memorandum signed by Ukraine and the IMF posted on the IMF’s website.
As reported, the Ukrainian government initially expected that the bill on agricultural land circulation will be passed by the end of December 2016. Instead, Verkhovna Rada at the end of October extended a moratorium on agricultural land sale imposed in 2002 until 2018.
Parliament instructed its committees and Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry to draw up relevant bills within six months. Later several lawmakers from the parliamentary coalition submitted bill No. 5535 on agricultural land circulation to the parliament.
