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Foreign and national construction companies will be able to participate in up to $2bn worth of contracts to rebuild 1,500 km of highways in Ukraine​ through 2023, government officials announced yesterday at a webinar on Public-Private Partnerships in the Road Sector. Tenders are to be drawn up next year for six sections of ‘M’ or international highways, said Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krykliy. The six sections are the first phase of a $9bn, 4,500 km project that is to stretch through the decade.
9.1.5​ Retail sector news
During the first half of this year, more than 300 new grocery supermarkets opened in Ukraine​, a record figure for the last decade, reports NAI Ukraine, the commercial real estate consulting company. In the fast moving consumer goods segment, the leaders were: ATB network +56; Kolo +47; Delvi +18; Fozzy Group +17; Varus +12; and Novus +8. Forbes Ukraine places ATB among the top three biggest businesses in the country.
Despite the spring coronavirus lockdown, retail sales for the first 10 months of this year are up almost 8% y/y in real terms,​ reports the State Statistics Service. In Kyiv, the nation’s biggest market, January-October sales are up 17% over last year’s level for the same period. Nationwide, sales were hot this fall – up 11.6% in September and up 15.2% in October.
9.1.6​ Agriculture sector news
Sunflower seed refineries are working at reduced capacity in Ukraine, ​the source of 55% of internationally traded sunflower oil, reports the national sunoil producers association. Due to drought, sunoil production could drop 15% y/y, to 6mn tons. APK-Inform consultancy quotes a producer association official as saying: “There is no raw material. The refineries are half-loaded.”
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