KIEV, April 20 - China Harbour Engineering company Ltd. has won an open tender to implement the first stage of the project to reconstruct the marine approach canal and internal water approach canals to deep-water berths of Yuzhny maritime merchandise port (Odessa region), offering the service for UAH 1.065 billion with the expected price of UAH 1.197 billion.

KIEV, April 20 – Construction of the new Beskydsky two-track railway tunnel in Carpathian Mountains will be finished at the end of 2017, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said on the sidelines of the Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, April 20 – Ukraine will use all legal mechanisms seeking invalidation of the international arbitration court's ruling ordering Ukraine to pay Tatneft $144 million in the Ukrtatnafta case, Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 21 – The Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund in 2016 sold assets of insolvent banks for UAH 3.2 billion, including 51% of revenue from selling claims to credits, the fund reported on its website.

KIEV, April 21 - Environmental specialists say they are alarmed by the cutting of forests in Ukraine's nature reserves and have called on local councils to approve the introduction of moratoriums on cutting of forests in the nature reserves of their regions.

KIEV, April 21 – Former Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn has joined the supervisory board of Naftogaz Ukrayiny as a representative of the presidential administration.

KIEV, April 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine effective April 22 has decided to decrease its refinancing rate to 19% from the current 22% set on September 25, 2015 when the central bank decreased it from 27%.

KIEV, April 21 – A new plant of France's Nexans, a cable manufacturer, will start operating in Brody (Lviv region) in 2017, of Lviv Regional Administration Governor Oleh Syniutka said.

KIEV, April 22 - American TransGas Development Systems is planning to build three plants in Ukraine for $10 billion to produce motor fuels from coal, TransGas Founder and President Adam Victor said in an interview with Business newspaper.

KIEV, April 23 - Some 300 people who had taken part in a city rally for federalization are blocking the office buildings and structural divisions of Krasnodonvuhillia coal company (Luhansk region) belonging to Metinvest group.