OREANDA-NEWS. On August 10, 2009 The Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has given a commission to the Ministry of Transport and Communications to ready a meeting to tackle development of river economy in Ukraine within a month, in particular, of river transport. A respective commission was given by the Head of Government during her working visit to Poltava region.

Yulia Tymoshenko noted in Ukraine there is program “Dnipro as a transport artery”. But, in her opinion, it is vital to analyze not only realization of this program but in whole the state of development of river economy: “We should check what we have with ports, what and how can be used as a transport artery and consider it as a complex program”.

“We don’t use our rivers, so we pay threefold against the needed amount,” the Head of Government informed and added that among the topmost issues should be usage of Dnipro river as a transport artery.

Besides, Yulia Tymoshenko empowered to prepare a meeting concerning the situation in Mykolayiv port.