Business news from Ukraine

Kholminsky distillery sold at auction for UAH 45 mln

The State Property Fund (SPF) of Ukraine has sold Kholminsky distillery in Chernihiv region for UAH 45 million at an auction in the system “Prozorro.Sales”, which is 2.9 times higher than the starting price, said the chairman of the SPF Vitaliy Koval.

“Three participants competed for the object. Its cost has increased in 2.9 times of the original”, – he wrote in Facebook and added that the FGI will continue denationalization of the alcohol industry.

The head of the FGI specified that the funds transferred by the winner of the auction to the state budget will be directed to the financing of the Defense forces of Ukraine.

According to Prozorro.Sales, the winner of the auction was Terminal Frost LLC.

According to the online resource youcontrol.com.ua, the company was registered in 2017 in Kiev. Specializes in non-specialized wholesale trade, providing financial and consulting services, renting its own or leased property. The authorized capital of the enterprise is 155 thousand UAH. The beneficiary of the enterprise is Anastasia Bashtova.

It is stated that the postal operator or express carrier must submit an additional register of international mail or express shipments if the goods are not subject to export duty or are not subject to restrictions provided for in Article 197 of the Customs Code.

Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Daniil Getmantsev in Telegram expressed hope that these changes will help to reduce business costs and speed up logistics.

As reported, the Verkhovna Rada adopted as a whole the bill No. 9456 on amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine regarding customs clearance of biomethane.

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“Prozorro.Sales” presented rating of most active cities

The annual ranking of cities that were most active in realizing their assets on “Prozorro.Sales” in 2023 was headed by Zolotonosha in Cherkasy region, Balta in Odessa region and Kyiv, according to a release on Wednesday.

“State online auctions in 2023 helped earn at least 1.6 billion hryvnia to local budgets. This is an example of how increasing the capacity of each individual city or town brings us closer to the recovery of the country’s economy as a whole,” Deputy Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev said.

In total, the rating included 26 cities, the total income of communities of which amounted to almost 1 billion UAH.

“Local governments today are the drivers of change on the ground, many of them are actively involved in the programs implemented by the Ministry, aimed at business development. At the same time, communities have a great potential, which they can realize independently, successfully selling and leasing communal real estate and land through “Prozorro.Sales”, – added Sobolev

According to the CEO of “Prozorro.Sales” Sergey Buta, compared to the first year of full-scale invasion, in 2023 several dozen more cities returned to the realization of assets through the state online auctions “Prozorro.Sales”.

“A total of 334 territorial communities worked with the system in 2023, which announced more than 7.3 thousand successful bids for small privatization, leasing of communal property and leasing and sale of land. And this is an opportunity for communities to independently generate revenues to their budgets and attract businesses that buy and lease communal assets,” Bute added.

It is specified that local governments in Zolotonosha successfully held 61 auctions out of 78 announced last year. Thanks to online auctions the local budget received almost UAH 1.9 mln. 168 successful auctions brought Balta more than UAH 23.3 mln, and the capital budget in 2023 was replenished by more than UAH 141.4 mln following the results of almost half a thousand auctions.

Lutsk and Lubny were also in the top five cities with high efficiency of property management through online auctions: their city budgets earned more than UAH 12.5 million and almost UAH 4.8 million respectively from the sale of municipal assets.

Chernivtsi, Dnipro, Ternopil, Lviv and Kremenchuk formed the second five of the rating according to the results of 2023.

According to “Prozorro.Sales”, Lviv, which took the ninth place, attracted the most funds in the system among all cities last year: small privatization, rent and land brought almost UAH 160.4 million to its budget.

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UKRZALIZNYTSIA STARTS SELLING SCRAP METAL VIA PROZORRO.SALES – ECONOMY MINISTRY

JSC Ukrzaliznytsia has put up for sale four lots of scrap ferrous metal with the total starting price of UAH 260 million at the platform of state-owned enterprise (SOE) ProZorro.Sales.
The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine said in a Wednesday press release that the auction is scheduled for January 11, 2019. Bids can be submitted before January 10.
Ukrzaliznytsia started selling its assets via the ProZorro.Sales platform in pursuance of government resolution No. 1054 dated November 22, 2017.
“These are the first lots for the sale of Ukrzaliznytsia’s assets, which appeared in the ProZorro.Sales system, and immediately the large quantities of a strategically important resource for metallurgists – scrap metal. This is a really important precedent, since Ukrzaliznytsia is the largest owner of scrap metal in Ukraine. And now the company can carry out its sales at the market price set during the bidding through the ProZorro.Sales system,” Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Maksym Nefyodov said.
In turn, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said that the company sees several positive aspects in this event.
“Firstly, the sale of scrap metal from railways is our help to the domestic metallurgical industry. After all, for these first tenders, Ukrzaliznytsia put more scrap metal than Ukrainian metallurgists imported this year up for sale. However, the main thing is that using scrap metal, for the first time Ukrzaliznytsia has made the way envisaged in the rules of managing property that the government approved and brought to us. For us, this is now an effective mechanism for effectively managing the property of the company to increase its earning power and improve the customer service,” he said.

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