Ukraine’s largest private operator of railway transportation invested more than ₴160M in infrastructure and logistics but reduced transportation by 9% last year. According to the results of 2023, the Lemtrans company reduced the volume of transportation of various goods by 9.6% compared to 2022 – to 17 million tons. The main part of transported goods is ... #FreightContainerTrains #investments #Lemtrans #RailTransportation #Ukrainianlogistics
A chain of perfume and cosmetics stores increased its turnover by 40% and plans to invest about ₴1.5B in development. In 2023 EVA opened 59 new stores and increased its turnover by 40% compared to 2022. As of December 31, the network had 1,061 stores. In 2024, the company plans to open about 60 more stores. Planned i... #CosmeticsStoresUkraine #EVA #investments #retailUkraine
A newly launched dry port on the border with Poland increased transshipment last year; investment reached ₴100M. The Mostyska container terminal, which began operations in mid-2022, handled more than 72,400 TEU of containerized cargo in 2023, the Lemtrans logistics company reported. The total volume of freight w... #Cargotransportation #DryPort #investments #MostyskaDryPort #TrailerTransportation
A Chinese businessman is investing in amber extraction in the Rivne region. Chinese businessman Wang Zhikai will join investors in the Sonyachne Remeslo company, which will mine amber at the Tomashgorod deposit in the Rivne region. “Wang Zhikai becomes one of the few di... #AmberMining #IhorMazepa #investments #WangZhikai
An industrial park with ₴735M in investment will be built in the Kyiv region. The Cabinet of Ministers has added Universal Industry, located in the village of Rokytne, Kyiv region, to the Register of Industrial Parks. Total investment in the industrial park for the next three y... #IndustrialParksUkraine #investments #ProcessingPlantUkraine #UkraineEconomy #UniversalIndustry
A Ukrainian hotel operator plans to add 10 new development projects. The founder of Ribas Hotels Group, Artur Lupashko, said: “Ribas currently has 54 hotels under management and construction. Another six projects are at the signing stage. This is not only Bukovel... #ArturLupashko #HotelBusinessinUkraine #HotelsUkraine #investments #RibasHotelsGroup
A French billionaire will pay $500M for a Ukrainian mobile operator. The French investment company NJJ Capital agreed to pay $500M for the Ukrainian carrier Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS. Turkcell announced the sale of its Ukrainian business, including Lifecell, at t... #investments #LifeCell #NJJCapital #Turkcell #XavierNiel
An international hotel chain plans to open several establishments in the capital and western Ukraine. French Louvre Hotels Group is negotiating with a few Ukrainian developers to build hotels in Kyiv, Lviv, and Bukovel, said the company’s regional development manager, Philippe Campagno. In the s... #investments #LouvreHotelsGroup #NewHotelsUkraine #PhilippeCampagno
The EBRD invested €3.8B in Ukraine over two years, exceeding its target. In 2023, the EBRD directed a record amount of €2.1B to Ukraine, and in 2022 – €1.7B. The largest institutional investor in Ukraine, which significantly increased investment after the invasion of... #ebrd #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineReconstruction
Ukrainian Releaf Paper plans to invest €500,000 in production and attract €16M in investment. The Releaf Paper startup is investing €500,000 in a raw material production project in Ukraine, the company’s top manager, Oleksandr Sobolenko, said. He plans to start implementing the project i... #investments #OleksandrSobolenko #ReleafPaper
Retailers EVA and VARUS confirm their large-scale investment plans and are counting on state assistance with risk insurance. Ruslan Shostak, the owner of the EVA and VARUS networks, confirmed the previously announced large-scale investment plans. Last year, the businessman created the Tervin Corporation, which has 17 compan... #EVA #InsuranceUkraine #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #RuslanShostak #Varus
Russia threatens the West with $288B in losses for blocking its assets. Russian propaganda media have calculated that Western companies may lose $288B in response to the confiscation of Russian assets. The G7 leaders will agree to develop a stronger statement of intent to... #G7 #investments #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianEconomy
Dragon Capital continues its investment in Ukrainian commercial real estate this year. Dragon Capital Property Management invested about $10M in its real estate portfolio in 2023 and plans to do the same in 2024, the company’s top manager, Nataliya Kravets, said. In the fall of 20... #CommercialRealEstate #DragonCapital #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #NataliyaKravets
In one week, Ukraine made more than ₴346M from privatization. Where do businesses propose to invest in the near future? On January 15-19, the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) attracted ₴346.66M to the state budget in privatization auctions. The state held 1... #DistilleryPrivatization #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #ProzorroAuction #StatePropertyFund
Zelenskyy’s office announces a plan to stimulate private investment. The Deputy Head of the President’s Office, Rostyslav Shurma, noted: “We understand that today there is practically zero investment interest in Ukraine. The main obstacles that are holding us bac... #InsuranceUkraine #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #RostyslavShurma
A Ukrainian-British car loan optimization start-up attractes £15.5M. London-based startup Carmoola, whose founders include Ukrainians, has raised £15.5M to develop its online platform, which offers a “buy now, pay later” option for car purchases. The total ... #Carmoola #investments #StartUp #StartUpinvestments
The investment division of the World Bank has mobilized almost $1B to restore Ukraine’s private sector. According to the director of the International Financial Corporation (IFC), Makhtar Diop, $620M of the funds raised for Ukraine are part of the $2B package announced in December 2022. The funds are fr... #ifc #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #MakhtarDiop
Despite the war, the M&A market in 2023 reached $1.4B and significantly exceeded the previous year’s figure. The volume of M&A deals in Ukraine at the end of 2023 amounted to $1.2B, reported InVenture. Considering these deals’ low publicity and transparency, this figure could be slightly higher and... #investments #MergersAcquisitions #UkraineEconomy
Security investments are gaining momentum in Ukraine: the number of investors has increased by 34%. According to the Settlement Center for Servicing Contracts in Financial Markets, registered investors in securities in Ukraine increased by 34%, or by 46,000, in 2023. The volume of operations with hr... #financeUkraine #investments #OVDPselling #ukrainebonds #UkraineSecurities
The EBRD increases its capital by €4B to continue investment in Ukraine. The heads of the EBRD approved a resolution to increase the bank’s capital by €4B, bringing it to €34B. It is noted that the additional capital will be used to ensure stable investments in Ukrai... #ebrd #EBRDinvestments #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine
The EIB allocates more than €20B for investments in various sectors of Europe, including Ukraine’s logistics capabilities. The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide €20.4B in new funding for investments in energy, transport, business, education, water, and regional development in Europe and worldwide. This includ... #EIB #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #REPowerEU #RESinvestments #WindEnergy
The largest Ukrainian feed producer is investing €60M in a new factory in Lithuania. Animal feed manufacturer Kormotech plans to reach $150M in sales in 2023 and will strive to be among the 50 largest feed manufacturers in the world, company owner Rostyslav Vovk said. He said the shar... #FeedProduction #investments #Kormotech #RostyslavVovk
What economic and investment prospects will Ukraine receive from joining the Three Seas Initiative? The Three Seas Initiative’s (3SI) financial infrastructure, particularly the 3SI Investment Fund, can play an essential role in ensuring investment in long-term projects in Ukraine, said the Min... #investments #ThreeSeasInitiative #UkraineRecovery #YuliyaSvyridenko
Five waste recycling clusters are planned to be opened in the west of Ukraine. Experts from the international technical assistance project, APENA3, presented the project as part of the Transcarpathian regional waste management plan. Deputy Minister of Ecology Viktoriya Kireeva s... #investments #WasteProcessingPlant #WasteRecycling #WasteSorting
New Investments of $100M in the port of Chernomorsk. The Ministry of Infrastructure and the international grain trader Kernel have agreed to launch several projects to develop the infrastructure of the Black Sea port worth more than $100M, announced the... #ChornomorskSeaPort #investments
The capitalization of “Cyclone-4M” will increase to $530M. The Canadian company MaritimeLaunchServices (MLS), which is implementing a project to launch Ukrainian Cyclone-4M rockets, is in talks with CeresAcquisitionCorp to increase the project’s capital... #AerospaceTechnology #Cyclone4M #investments
The Lviv region will receive a $5B industrial project. This was announced following a meeting of Lviv regional state administration representatives with a delegation of investors from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and China reported the Lviv administration. The de... #investments #liquidfuelproduction #LvivIndustrialPlant
“The most attractive industries for investment in Ukraine are mechanical engineering, energy, information technology, agriculture, and construction”, said the Minister of Economy, Yulia Svyridenko who was speaking with the Regional Director of the World Bank... #InvestinUkraine #investments
Ukrainian investors will be able to buy stocks in Google, Amazon, Intel, and other US blue-chip companies. The National Securities and Stock Market Commission has admitted to trading 15 more international companies, including Bank of America, Google, Amazon, and others. In total, Ukrainian investors can cu... #InvestinStocks #investments
Private investment will breathe economic life into dead state assets, Economy Minister Ihor Petrashko wrote on the Ministry website. He said: “Removing restrictions on the sale of large state-owned enterprises will not only fill the state budget, but also attract large ... #IhorPetrashko #investments #privatization #PrivatizationinUkraine #StateAssets #StateCompaniesforSale
Ukraine plans to attract investment to create “a belt of success” in government-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk, Oleskiy Reznikov, minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, tells Dom TV Channel. In addition to the multilateral aid flowing into the area, he cited talks with Turkish a... #InvestinginUkraine #InvestinUkraine #investments
