KYIV. Feb 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine is interested in cooperation with Qatar in developing port infrastructure.
The press service of Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry has reported that that this was discussed at a meeting of Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan and Minister of Transport and Communications of Qatar Jassim Bin Saif Al-Sulaiti held on February 21, 2017 in Geneva as part of the 79th session of the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
Omelyan said that Ukraine is interested in launching direct flights to Qatar and develop port infrastructure in Ukraine. The parties arranged a visit of the head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Qatar to Ukraine in March 2017. The visit aims at establishing cooperation between the agencies of the two countries.
Al-Sulaiti informed Omelyan about construction of a new container port in Qatar. Its capacities would reach 6 million TEU by 2020. The parties arranged that representatives of port industry of Qatar would visit Ukraine with the purpose of establishing cooperation.
Al-Sulaiti also invited Omelyan to visit Qatar.
KYIV. Feb 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Public joint-stock company Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod (NKMZ, Donetsk region), a leading heavy engineering enterprise in Ukraine, has shipped eight reinforced gears for modernization of a bar rolling mill 320 of Belarusian Steel Works (Zhlobin, Belarus).
The enterprise’s press service reported on Tuesday that the equipment will replace gears made by Voest Alpine (Austria).
The first gear has been installed, and the rest of seven gears will be installed at the start of this summer.
NKMZ designs, manufactures and installs equipment for metallurgical work, press and forging, ore processing and mining, coal mining, lifting and conveying, milling and crushing, oil and gas production, highway engineering, nuclear power generating and tool-making. The enterprise also manufactures consumer goods.
KYIV. Feb 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The German government has decided to provide financial assistance under the humanitarian aid programs of Germany’s Red Cross (DRK) for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine until the middle of 2019 with the additional amount of EUR 4.5 million. DRK, in turn, would provide own contribution in the amount of EUR 285,000.
The German Embassy in Ukraine reported on Tuesday that the target group of this humanitarian aid is IDPs severely suffered from the conflict and living in Kharkiv region, mainly aged people, people with disabilities, single mothers and fathers and families with many children (up to 5,000 people). They receive aid in the form of food and pharmaceutical vouchers.
The embassy said that DRK and Ukrainian Red Cross agree their steps with other target groups of humanitarian aid in Kharkiv region coordinated by the UN and International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC).
KYIV. Feb 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Piramida Trade LLC (Poltava) developing the eponymous movie theater chain in Ukraine seeks to open three new movie theaters in Kyiv city and one in Boryspil (Kyiv region) in 2017, the press service of the chain has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“Movie theaters will be opened as part of the shopping malls on 2,000-3,000 square meters. Wizoria will work in the six screen format in Kyiv and two screens in Boryspil,” the press service said.
The company receives offers to cooperate from operating malls and malls under construction. The company is selecting the malls now.
The chain also plans to expand to Dnipro and Odesa.
“Investment in movie theaters varies depending on the concept, the number of screens, equipment, quality of decoration and other things. Average payback term for one movie theater is four or six years,” the company said.
As of February 2017, the Wizoria chain had four movie theaters in Kyiv, Poltava and Myrhorod.
Piramida Trade LLC was registered in 1997.
Ultimate beneficiaries are Andriy Sokolov and Iryna Sokolova (36% and 64% respectively).
The charter capital is UAH 100,000.
They are also owners of the Concorde shopping mall (Poltava).
KYIV. Feb 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – PJSC Elvorti manufacturer of seeding and tillage machinery equipment (Kirovohrad, formerly Chervona Zirka) in 2016 increased sales by 43.3% compared to 2015, to UAH 938.4 million, according to the company.
Some 52% of the products were sold in the Ukrainian market.
According to chairman of the company supervisory board Pavlo Shtutman, capital investments exceeded UAH 61 million, UAH 65.8 million of taxes and fees was paid to the budgets of all levels, the average wage rose by almost 43% to UAH 6,440.
“Increasing the production capacity and human resources in 2016, Elvorti expanded the range of products and introduced new ASTRA 4 and ASTRA 6 sowing machines, FORTIS 1600 wheel loaders and ELEX 81A backhoe loaders,” the expert said.
According to him, Elvorti plans in 2017 to increase production and sales by 22%.
Chervona Zirka was founded by the Elvorti brothers in 1874 as a small workshop for repair of machines imported from England. In 1922, the plant received the name of Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), and in 2003 it was renamed as Chervona Zirka.
