Today the first in Ukraine port assets concession agreement was signed in Kherson Sea Port by State Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Buchko, Acting Chairman, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA), Oleksandr Golodnytsky, on the public side, and Director of Project Company Risoil-Kherson Vladyslav Talakh and Director of LLC Risoil-Kherson Shota Khajishvili, on the investor’s side. The solemn subscription was fulfilled in the presence of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.
The concessionaire LLC Risoil-Kherson is going to invest about 300M UAH in the port development, and 18M UAH more in the local infrastructure. The agreement term is 30 years, yet as soon as in 2030 the port’s throughput should be at least 1.36M t as per the investor’s commitment. Moreover, Risoil-Kherson undertakes to enlarge up to 80% the share of all transport modes servicing the port but the automotive one.
The concessionaire will also take part in funding capital repairs of road surface in the streets composing the port’s in/out routes as well as construction of a new trucks parking yard at the city entrance.
Let’s remind you that the pilot project of the public companies Kherson Sea Commercial Port and Stevedoring Company Olvia assets concession is conducted basing on Feasibility Study funded by World Bank via IFC and developed by the international consortium participated by MTBS Ukraine (MTBS, the Netherlands, and Interlegal, Ukraine).
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