Ukraine’s major chicken meat producer PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has signed an agreement to buy 90.68% of the issued share capital of a Slovenian poultry producer, Perutnina Ptuj (PP). “MHP SE, a leading international agro-industrial group, following the announcement of its intention to acquire Perutnina Ptuj D.D. on September 26, announces that MHP has signed…
President Petro Poroshenko has said that funding for the program for the design and construction of an international airport in the city of Dnipro has been envisaged in the draft state budget for 2019. He stated this at a meeting with Mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov, the president’s press service reported. “At my request, the…
Head of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine Slawomir Nowak has said that UAH 20 billion will be allocated for the construction, reconstruction and repairs of highways of state importance next year. “About UAH 20 billion will be allocated for the construction, reconstruction and repairs of state highways next year. The general program…
The construction of the subway to the Vynohradar residential district in Kyiv is to be completed by 2021. This is stipulated by the contract signed by Kyiv Metropoliten and the winner of the tender on the ProZorro public e-procurement system, PJSC Kyivmetrobud, for the extension of the Syretsko-Pecherska subway line, Kyiv Metropoliten’s press service reported.…
Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said that the signing of an Agreement on Common Aviation Area (CAA), or “Open Skies”, with the European Commission may take place in the first half of the next year. He stated this at a joint press conference with Chief Commercial Officer at Ryanair Holdings PLC, David O’Brien. “We are…
Ukraine’s state-run railways operator, JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, says five more locomotives built by U.S. GE Transportation’s Pennsylvania-based plant have arrived at Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk. As was the case with 15 previously delivered U.S. locomotives, the five would be sent to Ukraine’s Kremenchuk-based PJSC Kryukivsky Railway Car Building Works for final assembly. “Under the contract, the…
Economist Viktor Skarshevsky forecasts the forex rate of Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, against the U.S. dollar at UAH 30 by late December 2018. “In November-December of 2016 and 2017 the hryvnia devalued by 5%. Let’s extrapolate from this trend, and we will get the forex rate at around UAH 29.5-30 by the end of…