U.S. Bechtel Overseas Corporation with a price offer of UAH 5.3 billion won the competitive selection of the contractor for the construction of the first section of the Kyiv bypass road.
As reported by the State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) on its Facebook page on Friday, in particular, it is about the first 18-kilometer section of the upcoming bypass road from the M-07 Kyiv-Kovel-Yahodyn highway to M-06 Kyiv – Chop.
It will be a new category I-a bypass road with bridges, overpasses, green bridges for animals and a flyover. In addition, open parking lots will be built, weighing platforms in motion, noise screens and modern lighting will be installed. The construction of a modern autobahn will start after the conclusion of the contract.
Bechtel Overseas Corporation is a world leader in engineering, procurement and construction. The company was founded in 1898 and is the largest construction company in the United States with projects in 160 countries on seven continents. Bechtel has built more than 24,000 km of roads in its history.
As reported, the first stage of selecting a work contractor for the construction of the first section of the Kyiv bypass road was held among three companies: Avtomagistral-Yug LLC, U.S. Bechtel Overseas Corporation and Turkey’s Onur.
Representatives of the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine, the China National Complete Engineering Corporation (CCEC) and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine during a meeting on August 9 reached an agreement on the export of one million tonnes of grain to China by the end of this year, the state corporation wrote on Facebook.
“We plan to carry out purchases at our own elevators and use our own logistics and port facilities in order to make our partners the most profitable price offer,” the company quotes the acting chairman of the board of the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine, Andriy Vlasenko.
The corporation also cites data from CCEC President Yang Jing, who noted that the Chinese side is interested in developing cooperation, strives to fulfill the conditions of the existing contract for the 2021/2022 marketing year (MG, July-June) and is waiting for proposals from the Ukrainian side.
In turn, the Ministry of Economy proposed to hold weekly negotiations on the supply of grain between the Grain Corporation and CCEC.
As reported, in June 2021, the Grain Corporation discussed with CCEC representatives a possible delivery in the 2021/2022 MY of 2 million tonnes of early grain and 3 million tonnes of corn. The corporation clarified that it has completed a complex of preparatory work at the port facilities in Odesa and Mykolaiv, and also, at the request of the Chinese side, reached agreements with partners on the possibility of transshipment of an additional one million tonnes of grain at Chornomorsk seaport (Odesa region).
The plant for the production of thermoplastic granules (TPE-granules) and compounds, a new member of the Alef corporation of businessman Vadym Ermolaev, has been put into operation in Dnipro, according to the corporation’s Facebook page.
“The new Allcomp plant is a leading manufacturer of thermoplastic granules used in various fields of activity: construction, medicine, pharmaceuticals, automobiles,” the corporation said.
According to the corporation, the Allcomp plant is the first company using innovative equipment from German and Turkish manufacturers, which has no analogues in Ukraine. The quality of raw materials and finished products is controlled in the company’s own laboratory.
As reported, Alef Corporation unites 10 diversified businesses operating in the segment of development, production of medical devices, building materials and seamless pipes, and the agricultural sector.
The corporation’s businesses export their goods to more than 20 countries.
DCH Group of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky and ZTE Corporation, a large Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer, have signed a memorandum of cooperation under the Ecopolis KhTZ project, the DCH press service has said.
The document was signed on behalf of DCH by the managing company of the Ecopolis KhTZ business park, and on behalf of ZTE – the Ukrainian division of ZTE Ukraine Corporation. The ceremony was held in a video conference format due to quarantine restrictions in Ukraine.
According to the report, ZTE became the first Ecopolis KhTZ business resident in the industrial park (industrial cluster) and the technology park (IT and R&D clusters). The promising areas of cooperation are the creation of a ZTE office, an R&D center, and a production site in the territory of Ecopolis KhTZ.
“You are the first in the development of the Ecopolis KhTZ technology cluster. I hope other Chinese companies will follow you, such as, for example, Alibaba Group,” DCH said.
In turn, the vice president of ZTE Corporation emphasized the compliance of the Ecopolis KhTZ project with his company’s strategic priorities, and the CEO of ZTE Ukraine said that ZTE is ready to offer its expertise for the implementation of Smart City digital transformation projects in Kharkiv.
Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes, who was present at the signing ceremony, noted that the city will fully assist in the implementation of the initiative of DCH Group.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Kyiv) and China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC), the largest state-owned construction company in China, have signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation. According to the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure, the memorandum was signed by head of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov and member of the board Remigiusz Paszkiewicz from Ukraine and the deputy director general of CRCC from China.
According to the report, the Minister of Infrastructure noted that the signing of the document is an important stage of cooperation for the development of railway connection in the direction of Ukraine-China, attracting Chinese partners to modernize the Ukrainian railways and realize the transit potential of the country on the European Union-China route.
“The fact that the Chinese corporation decided to open a representative office in Ukraine and sign a memorandum of strategic cooperation indicates that the economic situation in the country is changing, the investment climate is improving, the largest foreign technology and manufacturing giants are interested in working in the Ukrainian market,” the minister said.
According to him, the ministry expects to restart and intensify the participation of Ukraine in the project One Belt – One Road, which will make it possible to fully realize the transit potential of the country in the continental cargo turnover.
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PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine in January-October 2019 exported 2.34 million tonnes of grain and sold 160,040 tonnes of flour and bran.
According to a report on its website, during the reporting period it shipped 751,200 tonnes of grain to the main partner, China’s National Corporation CCEC.
Corn ranked first in the commodity structure of grain exports by the corporation, its share in the total volume continued to grow in the reporting period, and reached 67%.
The main buyers of the corporation’s products were Austria, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Bangladesh, China, and Venezuela. Deliveries to third countries are carried out through CCEC.
State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine was created by the government of Ukraine in August 2010. It includes an extensive network of branches: linear and port elevators, mills, feed mills and cereal plants. A total of 53 subdivisions can store 3.7 million tonnes of grain, including about 2.5 million tonnes per year of total capacity for transshipment of grains for exports in Odesa and Mykolaiv ports.
