OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2009. On shipbuilding yard Wadan Yards Okean in Mykolayiv city there was a solemn launching of three new barges of NIBULON’s fleet. The event marked a new stage in realization of the biggest during the whole history of the company investment project on building its own fleet for transportation of agricultural production along Dnipro River and other water ways of Ukraine.

General Director of Wadan Yards Okean, the Hero of Ukraine Mykola Romanchuk began the ceremony. “Just at that spot the history of Ukraine is born, new work places are creating, Ukrainian fleet is reviving.  Some people want to blacken development of shipbuilding in Mykolayiv city, calling these very complicated according to technical characteristics vessels as “60 tons weight barges”. It is wrong. Our children know and will know that their city is a city of shipbuilders.”

Deputy Head of Mykolayiv State Administration Dmytro Oboron’ko said: “Shipbuilding has a great meaning for our region, especially today –during economic crisis. That is why this investment project has a great meaning for us. It will make a possibility to fill budget of Mykolayiv region, give new work places for our people. We do not have similar projects in our region. That’s why I can confirm: the project is of national-level meaning”.

Mayor of Mykolayiv city Volodymyr Chaika noted: I know that our history is created by usual people. Today we observe process of creation of this history. I am sure that due to wisdom, experience and efforts of the managers of these two companies there will be created new work places, new opportunities and prospects of development of our Mykolayiv companies.” 

Sergiy Fadeev, first deputy General Director of state enterprise Ship Register of Ukraine thanked workers of the yard. By the way, this enterprise supervises technical level of building of NIBULON’s barges. He hopes for further cooperation with Wadan Yards Okean.

The representative of Ukrainian export-import bank Mykhailo Butsko commented the event in the following way: Every bank is proud of his clients. But the most valuable clients are those which can be called our partners. I have known Oleksiy Opanasovych since 1996 as our reliable partner, who is always ready for innovations in business. Sometimes our bank even is not in time with innovative ideas of General Director of NIBULON. But we always managed to bring to life all those ideas. The transshipment terminal in Mykolayiv is a pearl of our achievements. Economists have a notion “growing-point”. I think now the growing-point of Ukrainian economy is creating”.

As General Director of NIBULON, the Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Vadatyrskyy noted: “Owing to efforts of teams of two companies today we build our own Ukrainian fleet. In April when we signed the contracts we watch one documental film about usage of such barges on the biggest rivers of the world. Today part of my dreams comes true! In some minutes we will see the first caravan consisted of three barges with length more than 270m. But it is only a part of our investment project. Today we also construct the inland silos and river terminal in different regions of Ukraine. More than 24 building companies are involved in this process. On all building sites are involved more than 150 building companies and it is nearly 10 thousand of work places. ”

The Director of Ukrainian office of Cimbria Unigrain A/S Oksana Stretovych expressed her sincere respect and greetings to NIBULON.

The representatives of three Mykolayiv schools became god mothers of new three barges.

After the solemn ceremony children from schools of Mykolayiv city under the patronage of NIBULON got rucksacks, books, sweeties and excursion to the best zoo of Ukraine. On the 1st of September they will get new subject computerized class-rooms.

Today, especially during economic crisis man can rarely see such care of the company about not only its own business interests but also about social needs of people. NIBULON, realizing its investment projects, never forgets about people’s interests.