Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted on Thursday the general list of objects subject to privatization in 2018-2020 which includes on top of 26 large enterprises, over 700 entities all in all. Among them, as per the list published by Ministry of Economical Development and Trade, are all the 13 state-owned port stevedores, according to Centre of Transport Strategies.
It’s worth noting that MEDT has been charged to complete the list in two weeks term taking into consideration the actual state of the objects, and publish it on its web-site, as well as make proper changes in it basing on well-grounded suggestions by the subjects of management.
Let’s remind that earlier Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan informed that the concession had been defined as more appropriate option for the state-owned stevedoring companies than privatization.
At the same time, Acting Head of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority Raivis Veckagans spoke in favour of privatization of state-owned stevedores. This, according to him, would help attract investments, keep the jobs and make those companies work more efficient.
As it came known, early in last July Government approved the state enterprises management concept (Triage) proposed by MEDT, that provides for the state to keep of 3,444 public companies and object only 15 utterly important enterprises and 363 objects securing the state’s functions performance, while the rest to be concessioned, sold or terminated. That was one of the terms cooperation program with International Monetary Fund.
Source: https://cfts.org.ua/news/2018/05/11/kabmin_odobril_privatizatsiyu_vsekh_gosstividorov_do_2020_goda_47201