The Poltava international airport has serviced the first flight after reconstruction, First Deputy Head of Poltava Regional Administration Andriy Pesotsky has written on his Facebook page. “We have serviced the first flight after the reconstruction of the airport. Citizens of the United States, Canada, China and Europe arrived. They are not simply tourists, but bloggers and all those interested in aviation… I am proud that we have set the airport in order and now we can service flights both from other cities, and foreign flights,” he said.
According to the regional news portal Poltava News, the first flight of the airport is domestic, and a few dozen of foreign tourists flew from Zaporizhia by Yak-40 plane. As reported, on January 31, 2017, Poltava Regional Council adopted a program to develop and support the Poltava airport for 2017-2020 with the total cost of UAH 351 million. On December 20, 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine granted the status of the international airport to the Poltava airport.
Ukraine seeks to take part in several projects in Egypt, in particular projects on modernization of a steel works and reconstruction of a coke-oven battery for a company, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said. “Ukraine is ready to undertake several projects in Egypt. The first one is modernization of Helwan steel works worth some $200 million and reconstruction of a coke-oven battery for El Nasr for Coke & Chemicals worth some $80 million,” Kubiv wrote on his Facebook page after a meeting with the minster for state-owned companies of Egypt who visited Ukraine with the purpose of attracting Ukrainian specialists to construction and modernization of Egyptian state-owned enterprises.
Kubiv also said that last year goods flow between Ukraine and Egypt reached almost $2 billion, and trade with services grew by 62% in 2017 compared with 2016.
BATTERY, COKE-OVEN, EGYPT, MODERNIZATION, PROJECTS, RECONSTRUCTION, STEEL WORKS
