Ukraine's government expands list of large SOEs to be put up for sale

Ukraine's State Property Fund in January published a list of enterprises set to be privatized.

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Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleksiy Honcharenko says the Cabinet of Ministers has expanded the list of facilities subject to large-scale privatization with the following SOEs: salt-producing enterprise Artemsil, JSC First Kyiv Machine-Building Plant, JSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU), and SJSC Khlib Ukrainy.

"The state-owned Artemsil, JSC First Kyiv Machine-Building Plant, JSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU), and SJSC Khlib Ukrainy have been added to the list of facilities set for large-scale privatization [sale] of state property," he wrote on his Telegram on March 3, following a government meeting.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the State Property Fund (SPF) of Ukraine in January published a list of enterprises to be offered for a large-scale 2020 privatization campaign in its newspaper Vidomosti Pryvatizatsiyi.

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The list includes eleven enterprises in the energy sector, namely Centrenergo, Ternopiloblenergo, Zaporizhiaoblenergo, Kharkivoblenergo, Mykolaivoblenergo, Khmelnytskoblenergo, Khersonska combined heat power plant (CHPP), Dniprovska CHPP, Kryvorizka CHPP, Odeska CHPP, and Sievierodonetska CHPP.

In addition, the government plans to sell the United Mining and Chemical Company, the Krasnolymanska Coal Mining Company, Azovmash (the management company of Ukraine's leading heavy engineering group), and Electrotyazhmash (manufacturer of turbines and hydrogenerators). Such chemical producers as Sumykhimprom, Odesa Portside Chemical Plant, Oriana, and Indar (insulin production) are on the list. President Hotel and Ukragroleasing (leasing out farming equipment) are also included.

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