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A new complex, which will include a newly-built bus station and fully renovated passenger moorage, will be built in Kaniv for the Euro-2012, the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reports. The agency responsible for the preparation and holding of the final stage of the European soccer championship and the State Service of Sea and River Transportation (Ukrmorrichflot) started joint work on erecting the complex. At present the state enterprise Ice Arenas works on building the surface of the complex, and the state enterprise Administration of River Ports determines the conditions of reconstruction of the underwater part in the moorage’s hydraulic facilities. The capital renovation and reconstruction of the passenger moorage will be realized within the fulfillment of the project “reconstruction and building of objects of the National Shevchenko Preserve and infrastructure of the city of Kaniv,” which is one of constituents of the state program on preparing and holding the Euro-2012. Ukrmorrichflot is already elaborating a list of passenger vessels of state enterprises which can be used for transporting passengers down the Dnipro. 

The agricultural company AgroGeneration (Paris), specialized in producing grain and oil-bearing crops in Ukraine, concluded preliminary agreements on purchasing several Ukrainian agricultural enterprises. According to the exchange report of the company, respective agreements can be signed in the near months, after a final audit of the agricultural firms they are going to buy. As AgroGeneration specifies, each of these enterprises controls agricultural lands in the amount of 15-30 percent of the area the company cultivates, which in 2010 increased by 20 percent — to 48,000 hectares. 

The state enterprise “Scientific production association Pavlohrad Chemical Plant” (PCP) finished the construction of an industrial object for the removal of the solid propellant of intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBM) PC-22, Yevhen Ustymenko, the enterprise’s technical director, informed. He pointed out that the realization of such a project will increase the efficiency of removing propellant from missile engines by five times, as compared to the test unit. The object is scheduled to begin operations on April 5, 2011. The cost of its construction was 29 million hryvnias. Funds from the state budget were allotted in determined portions in 2007-08 and 2010. According to Ustymenko, at present, out of the 11 objects for the industrial utilization of solid propellant, four objects function at PCP, which processes rocket fuel into emulsion explosives. The emulsion explosives were certified and admitted for permanent use in mining enterprises. “The exact amount necessary to complete the construction of the entire technological chain is yet to be specified, due to a change in terms of realization of the solid propellants utilization program. If the required financing is provided, the remaining industrial objects can be set into operation by the end of 2011,” Ustymenko said.