THE PRICE OF THE BILGOROD-DNISTROV PORT WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED

Not a single participant registered for the first auction for the privatization of the Belgorod-Dniester port. The next auction is scheduled for March 13, the price was halved to UAH 93.7 million. Oleksandr Slavskyi, head of the regional branch of the State Property Fund of Ukraine for Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, reported this on his Facebook page, writes agronews.ua.

"Frankly, we ourselves are surprised, because in our experience there have never been so many interested in this port, both among Ukrainian and foreign companies. Sometimes this happens: the market considers the price too high. Is it really so? We already had this: at the second auction, the price increases more than it was at the first," said Slavsky.

He also mentioned a few more reasons, due to which, probably, there were no people willing to participate in the auction:

The port on the Danube is one of the few fully operational in the country. The facility in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsk is currently operating as a "dry port".

The total cost. Please add 20% VAT to the price you see in the auction. And in the case of the Bilhorod-Dniester port, add debt repayment (which at the end of the year amounted to about UAH 100 million).