We weren’t surprised by yesterday’s “hot” fake article entitled “Wll NIBULON default on EBRD liabilities?”, which became a result of public struggle of NIBULON for Ukrainian rivers revival for the benefit of the Ukrainians, but not to enrich a group of people who want to make a fortune from the state. It should be noted that both General Director of our company and employees always express their opinion openly and do not hide behind the backs of fronts and little-known Internet resources. Instead, our opponents mostly use all available means to hide their surnames or use so-called “trash” websites.
Yesterday’s situation was the evidence of unscrupulousness of a number of Ukrainian media, including the authoritative ones as UNIAN,  Biznes (Business), Kapital (Capital), Apostrof (Apostrophe), Latifundist which have published this unreliable information.
Even despite the fact all these news agencies publish news about our company’s activity almost every week, invite us as the industry experts, some of them regularly visit our production branches and realize that the information is unreliable, no one of them addressed us to comment, confirm or  deny the information; no one asked supporting documents. They all “believed” (maybe not for free) a little-known website StockWorld. According to the information of the same website, Fondovyy Mir LTd., which was created in 2003 and registered at: the Russian Federation, Moscow, 6 Malyhina St., owns the copyright on it. In 2010, another Moscow company Transinvestkholding Ltd. became a legal successor. By the way, at present it is in liquidation.
Given the fact that the Russian website is an origin source of the fake information, one can assume that it was reaction of the well-known industrial and financial group with Russian capital NIBULON repeatedly mentioned in its criticism on the draft law “On inland water transport” and other.
We assure that any attempts to discredit our company are doomed to be denied by objective data.
In the process of work NIBULON Group, as it is done in the world, uses both long-term and short-term loans of Ukrainian and European banks and receive funds of the leading international financial institutions. Financing ongoing operations through short-term loans is a common practice; market experts will confirm. Under the loan agreements all the creditors quarterly conduct financial analysis of the group. The financial indices of our company are at least twice better than those in the fake publication. There was no case of delay in payment of interest or principal amount of loan in 25 years. As a result, all creditors expand cooperation with our company annually.
Our achievements and successful implementation of the investment projects also deny such fake information.  In 7 months of the current marketing year we have exported 2.73 million tons of grain and oilseeds (we would remind you that our company is a leader among Ukrainian exporters of grain and oilseeds for many consecutive years). Now we are constructing two transshipment terminals in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions (they will be put into operation in May 2017), reconstructing NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard in Mykolaiv, and constructing new self-propelled and non-self-propelled vessels there.
Neither political leaders of the country nor our partners nor local people in whose territory we are investing, creates hundreds of jobs and pay taxes (in 2015-2016 MY our company paid UAH 313 million of taxes and charges) have doubts about success of these projects and their usefulness for the country.
The unreliable information posted in media about financial status of NIBULON was denied by Anton Usov, Senior Advisor of the EBRD for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, who officially stated that the posted information has nothing to do with reality, and NIBULON pays off its loan in a normal mode https://www.facebook.com/nibulonltd/posts/1193505587437116.
While some Ukrainian media play into the hands of other countries in the style of LifeNews, we will maintain our statist position, conduct enlightenment activities, develop Ukrainian logistics infrastructure, and increase the level of Ukrainian commodities in foreign markets.  We plan to strengthen cooperation with foreign partners and to integrate Ukraine into the global world. Our opponents cannot distract us from implementing the company’s strategy of development. One cannot stop us!