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.
