KYIV. Feb 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The working group established under Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, which includes representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Monetary Fund, believes that selling stakes in Ukrainian regional electricity-generating companies, as well as PJSC Centrenergo, will only be possible after adoption of the law on the electric energy market. Introduction of new regulatory measures will also be necessary, according to the press service of Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF).
The SPF said the corresponding opinions of the working group were made following its latest sitting.
“Members of the working group expressed a single though – that selling stakes in Ukraine’s regional electricity generating companies and Centrenergo, even 25% stakes, cannot be done without first passing the law on the electricity market and introducing new regulatory measures. International experts have expressed willingness to make this view known to government officials,” the SPF’s press release said.
As earlier reported, the parliament’s committee overseeing the nation’s fuel and energy sector has floored a draft bill, entitled “On the electricity market.”
KYIV. Feb 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyiv city authorities plan to launch two new subway stations within three years – Prospekt Pravdy and Mostytska. Construction works could start in December 2017, the press service of Kyiv City Council has reported, referring to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
“According to the preliminary calculations, we could open the Mostytska and Prospekt Pravdy stations within three years,” he said at a visiting meeting at the Syretska subway station.
He said that at present the project is being designed and examined. Its approximate cost is UAH 5 billion.
The mayor said that Managing Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Thomas Maier showed the bank’s interest in the projects to build subway when Klitschko met him.
He said that construction of subway to Troyeshyna residential district could be possible only after the completion of the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge.
KYIV. Feb 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine is making the dredging works market open and invites businessmen to participate in it, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said.
“We are opening the dredging works market for business. I hope that the market will be open and transparent,” he said at a meeting with dredging companies in the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine last week.
Omelyan said that the country will also open the internal water route market. He invited business to constructive work in this segment.
KYIV. Feb 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Yanair airline is entering the business aviation market and offers the YanAir Connect service: charter flights using Cessna Citation CJ1 business jet.
The airline said in a press release that corporate clients and private persons could use the service. The airline provides broker services and orders charter flights using the plane.
“Our airline is trying to provide a wide range of services. In this case this is the business aviation segment which is of great demand today on the Ukrainian market,” Yanair Commercial Director Yevhen Pushenko said.
He said that at the end of the year the airline will assess if this segment is profit-making. Then it will be decided to continue cooperation with business aviation or not. Cessna Citation CJ1 jet is based at the Zhuliany airport. Partners of Yanair provide the plane. Yanair provides broker services.
Yanair was registered in Zhytomyr on June 15, 2012. In July 2013 it received a certificate for operations.
As of January 23, 2017, the airline’s fleet consists of two Saab 340 planes, two Airbus A320 planes, one Airbus 321, two Boeing 737-300 planes and one Boeing 737-400 plane.
KYIV. Feb 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Allseeds Group in February 2017 starts implementing the oil meal handling project at its production site at the Yuzhny port.
The company said on its website that the project will be implemented in three stages. At each stage the company will connect a warehouse with a storage capacity of 25,000 tonnes each to the existing infrastructure of the enterprise and railway tracks. There will be three warehouses with a total capacity of 75,000 tonnes.
This will allow the company to diversify supplies of own oil meal and oil meal of its partners to berths of the Yuzhny port and other operators. This will considerably cut expenses on these transactions.
“We expect that after the implementation of the logistics project we will reach around 1 million tonnes of oil meal handled a year and $10 million of income,” Allseeds Board Chairman Viacheslav Petrysche said.
Allseeds launched an oil refining plant at Yuzhny port in July 2015.
KYIV. Feb 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The volume of industrial goods and services sold in Ukraine in 2016 amounted to UAH 1.766 trillion, which is 18% more than in 2015 (UAH 1.496 trillion), in particular exports stood at UAH 466.6 billion (UAH 418.8 billion), the State Statistics Service has said.
According to the service, in the total sales the share of food, beverages and tobacco products was 21.6%, that of supply of electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air 21.5%, metallurgical production and production of finished metal goods 17.1%, mining and quarrying 13%.
In December 2016 compared to December 2015 the volume of mining and processing industry sales increased by 24.4%, in particular mining and quarrying by 48.6%, processing industry by 20.6%.
