The international hotel chain Marriott International on May 18 officially opened the Aloft Kiev hotel at the intersection of Baseina Street and Esplanadna Street, which became the first facility of the company in Ukraine.
According to a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko during the official ceremony noted that the opening of a new hotel on the eve of the UEFA Champions League final in the capital is a positive event.
“There are a lot of speculations in this direction, prices are rising, so I’ll say: it is very good now, before the Champions League final, to open an additional hotel, additional rooms,” he said.
The press service of the Aloft Kiev hotel said as of the day of its opening all the rooms have already been reserved.
The hotel room stock is 310 rooms of different categories, the total area of the object is more than 18,000 square meters. Its infrastructure also includes three conference rooms, a restaurant in the Grab & Go format, etc.
In addition, the hotel is equipped with the SPG Keyless system, which provides access to rooms using a telephone without the need to obtain a key at the front desk.
The technical opening of the Aloft Kiev hotel took place on February 27, 2018.
The Aloft brand belongs to the American network Starwood Hotels & Resorts, acquired by Marriott International in 2016.
Ukraine as of May 21 had sowed spring grains and legumes on 6.9 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said.
According to the report, this figure is 93% of the forecasted areas.
Early spring grain crops were sown on 2.3 million hectares (96%), in particular wheat on 166,000 hectares (95%), barley on 1.5 million hectares (96%), oats on 189,000 hectares (92%), and peas on 416,000 hectares (99%).
Corn for grain was sowed on 4.4 million hectares (95%), buckwheat on 69,000 hectares (46%), and millet on 32,000 hectares (57%).
In addition, the sowing of industrial crops continues. Currently 280,000 hectares have been sown with sugar beets (94% to the forecast), 5.4 million hectares (98%) with sunflower, and 1.6 million hectares (81%) with soybeans.
The construction of a high-speed railway line to Boryspil airport will be completed by December 1, according to the Government Portal website.
“The object will be commissioned by December 1. The construction has started. Now we will finally agree on the type of station,” Acting Chairman of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said during a meeting with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
“It is important to complete the project by December 1 and provide alternative transport to passengers to get to the airport or from the airport through the city and other cities of Ukraine,” Groysman said.
According to the construction project, the line will be built from the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station through the Vydubychi station to Terminal D at Boryspil airport. The estimated travel time is 35 minutes.
The rolling stock to be used on the line is 11 PESA 620m trains for 91 seats and two PESA 630m trains with 192 seats.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) in the first quarter of 2018 received $90 million of net profit, which is 1.6 times more than for the same period in 2017.
According to the holding report on the website of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), its revenue increased by 10%, to $306 million, export revenue was $162 million (53% of the total revenue).
Operating profit decreased by 16%, to $62 million, EBITDA by 4%, to $89 million, gross profit by 6%, to $81 million compared to January-March 2017.
As reported, MHP sold 135,307 tonnes of poultry in January-March 2018, which is 9% more than in the same period of 2017. Export sales of the agricultural holding increased by 28% in the first quarter, to 63,140 tonnes, while the volume of sales in the domestic market fell by 4%, to 72,160 tonnes.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct is the largest poultry producer in Ukraine. It is also engaged in production of grain, sunflower oil, and meat.
The founder and majority shareholder of MHP is Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosiuk.
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