NIBULON’s specialists headed by the General Director Oleksiy Vadaturskyy participated in the conference being the key international event for grain market participants.
This year, the leading world experts presented reports and presentations as part of the business program. The speakers paid attention to the following issues:
– analyses of various supply and demand factors affecting grain and oilseeds, views for the present and forthcoming growing seasons;
– key macroeconomic, financial and geopolitical issues for traders;
– Black Sea grain quality in 2015: challenges and opportunities versus 2014;
– position of Black Sea countries in the global agrarian market, Black Sea assets attractiveness for investors, role of Black Sea countries in global and local food markets;
– freight and logistics – fleet development, change of vessel demand and effect on grain transportation, market indices analysis;
– consumption and end consumer focus – global demand outlook.
The conference organized by experts is an excellent opportunity to share experience and opinions on current grain industry problems with international experts.
NIBULON’s delegation actively participated in the conference, having had a number of negotiations and business meetings.
Dmytro Furda, a manager of grain crops wholesale, noted that NIBULON had had a number of fruitful meetings with other agribusiness players, in particular  Presidio Trade Group (the USA – Japan), Agroalimentacion Mendoza Perez, S.L. (Spain), Shabarek Trading (Lebanon), Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Japan), BTG Pactual (Brazil – Ukraine) and many others.
They discussed opportunities to start new trade relations or develop the existing ones, opportunities for NIBULON’s Group to enter new product markets, and to develop a network of agricultural commodity end consumers. All grain market players highly appreciated the quality of agricultural commodities shipped for export by NIBULON. This is confirmed by the fact that the high grain quality and strict compliance with contract terms are the best promotion of NIBULON’s activities in the global market.
According to Tetyana Ibragimova, a deputy head of financial department, NIBULON’s General Director met with representatives and managers from 13 potential lending banks.
The leaders in the financial sector, such as the EBRD, Natixis (France), ABN Amro (the Netherlands), BNP Paribas, ING, Rabobank (the Netherlands), are among NIBULON’s long-standing partners who highly appreciate NIBULON’s perfect credit history.
Thirty-four European bankers participated in a round table, discussing positive dynamics in NIBULON’s Group activity results in 2014-15 MY as well as in the first quarter of 2015-16 MY. In particular, our financial partners were informed of:
– export achievements: NIBULON’s group exported 4.2 million tons last marketing year; NIBULON is a  leader in the Ukrainian export market; 
– achievements in logistics: in 2014-15 MY, NIBULON transported almost 417 thousand tons/ km by its trucks and 1.4 million tons of agricultural commodities by its own fleet;
– investment plans: NIBULON has started constructing its transshipment terminal in Buzke village (Voznesensk district, Mykolayiv region);  the company continues dredging the Southern Bug and constructing fleet at NIBULON shipbuilding and repair yard.
According to NIBULON’s specialists, the bank representatives were sincerely interested in the company’s activities both in Ukraine and in the Black Sea region.
The leading financial institutions also demonstrated their intention to expand their presence in Ukraine. According to them, such companies like NIBULON are a litmus test for Ukraine’s investment attractiveness. These companies are an example of how agribusiness works in order  to develop and expand itself, to popularize the company and Ukraine as a whole, and to attract new investments.
Some managers from European banks asked such rhetorical questions, “Who else but NIBULON is worth of our credit resources?”
Together with the agrarian sector management, NIBULON will continue making investment climate in Ukraine attractive. It is necessary to build only transparent and socially responsible business despite any political and economic situation.