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6.1.4 Budget dynamics - privatisation
The State Property Fund has designated a seaport for privatisation. The State Property Fund of Ukraine (STPU) prepared the Ust-Dunaisk Sea Trade Port for privatisation. The auction will take place on January 17 on Prozorro.Sales, with the starting price of UAH 60M ($1.5M).
The seaport requires an investment that private businesses can bring, the State Property Fund noted. The port consists of three assets: the port itself in the city of Vylkovo (Odeszine), the port office Kilia in the city of the same name, and a service base for special lighter carriers on the island of Shabash. Loading and unloading operations are carried out directly at the Kilia port, located 54 km from the Danube River. The passage depth at the pier is 3 m, and the actual depth is 1.5 m.
6.2 Debt
Ukraine’s hryvnia-denominated debt has risen by 45% since February and is nearing 80% of its GDP, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said on December 6.
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