KIEV, Oct. 1 – Ukraine's government has allowed the Ukravtodor state road administration to attract, under state guarantees, another loan from Morgan Stanley International Limited worth $465 million or other currency, which is equivalent to UAH2.35 billion.

KIEV, Sept. 30 -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has provided a $20 million loan to support further expansion by Odessa-based shipping company Black Sea Shipping Management Co Ltd. (BSSM).

KIEV, Sept. 30 ??“ A delegate of the German Bureau of the Economy in Ukraine, Karin Rau, has said that foreign investors would welcome the cancellation of 20% VAT on investments in statutory funds of joint-stock companies.

LYSYCHANSK, Sept. 30 - Russian-British oil company TNK-BP plans to invest $300 million in developing Lysychansk Oil Refinery (Linos) by 2012, TNK-BP Ukraine President Sergei Lizunov said at a press briefing held to mark the 30th anniversary of the refinery.

KIEV, Sept. 30 ??“ The relaxation of requirements on obligatory reserves by the National Bank of Ukraine as of Oct. 1 will increase the volume of funds available to credit the Ukrainian economy by around UAH2.5 billion, NBU First Deputy Chairman Anatoliy Shapovalov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - The Finance Ministry has received six bids from 10 banks for a tender to select a lead manager for the country's new foreign bond issue, which is to be placed by year-end, as written into the 2006 budget.

LONDON, Oct. 2 ??” Jabil Circuit Inc., a US electronic manufacturing services provider, is next year to build a second plant in Ukraine that could eventually employ 1,500 people, EE Times reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - The Ukrainian government is in talks with Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma, to settle ownership dispute over Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said Sunday.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - French bank Societe Generale is considering the possibility of buying Ukraine's UkrSibbank, the French daily newspaper La Tribune reported. UkrSibbank is the fifth largest bank in Ukraine. "The French bank is going to purchase UkrSibbank, Ukraine's fifth biggest bank," reads the article.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - ZaporizhTransformator (ZTR), one of the world's largest manufacturers of power transformers, will supply a single-phase 72 MVA 500 kW transformer to the Yali hydroelectric power station in Vietnam by late March.