KIEV, Oct. 21 – Kherson shipyard has started construction of a main product carrier tanker under the RST27 project for SVL companies (Malta).

The ceremonial laying of the ship’s keel took place on October 21.

According to Kherson Shipyard's Director General Vasyl Fedir, the ship was designed by the Marine Engineering Bureau (Odessa).

KIEV, Oct. 21 – The State Property Fund is planning in early November to announce a second tender on the privatization of energy companies, SPF head Oleksandr Riabchenko announced.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The Economy Ministry has said that Ukrainian metals companies need to pay more attention to the domestic market to settle the situation in the mining and metals sectors and produce competitive products to retain foreign steel markets.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Ukraine and Vanco International Limited (U.S.) have agreed that the shares of the parties under the production sharing agreement during the development of the Prykerchenska oil and gas field will be 30 to 70, and 50 to 50 when extraction commences, Ukraine's Environment Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Kiev-based Kviza-Trade Ltd. announced it has bought 100% of the stocks in the Green Hills Market supermarket chain (Kishenev), which is the leader on the Moldovan market.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – The annual Kiev meeting of reinsurance companies, Golden Autumn, will take place in Rus Hotel on Nov. 9, according to the press service of the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine (LIOU).

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Bogdan Corporation, one of Ukraine's largest car producers, in two or three months plans to consolidate industrial assets at Lutsk car plant (the Bogdan car plant), company President Oleh Svynarchuk said at a press conference last week.

KIEV, Oct. 23 ??“ The National Communication Regulatory Commission will hold a tender next month for two regional licenses for the right to use radio frequencies for providing access to the broadband IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) standard.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - Mars, the world's largest producer of chocolate and pet food, may build a $15 million pet food plant in the Kiev region, Volodymyr Koval, head of the foreign investment department in the Kiev regional administration, said.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - The State Property Fund has been pushing for a government resolution that would open door for selling stakes in 21 power companies, SPF Deputy Director Dmytro Parfenenko said.