Agritel International extends its activities in the Black Sea region and continues to familiarize the Western European partners and clients with Ukraine’s investment situation. On May 31 NIBULON became one of the key facilities within a business trip of French agrarians. Traditionally, from year to year foreign farmers, managers of agricultural companies, exporters visit Ukraine and NIBULON in order to observe the domestic agro-industrial complex for further investment. This time representatives of such companies as Agritel International, Agro KMR and Dijon Céréales visited NIBULON’s main sea terminal in Mykolayiv city and the transshipment terminal in Nova Odesa town. “Powerful logistics that includes NIBULON’s own fleet, elevator capacities, vehicle fleet is an innovation (not only for Ukraine but also for the whole France), an evidence of serious approach to doing business”, notes Michel Brot, a French agrarian (Dijon Céréales). The foreign guests, taking into consideration the realities of the Ukrainian agrarian sector, analyzed it and predicted data with caution. According to Pierre Begoc, Agritel International general director, Ukraine requires mechanisms of free export ensuring in order to guarantee competitive and stable European agricultural prices and, thus, to create an opportunity for the domestic agrarians to invest in development of companies and the sector in whole. Holding France up as an example, the guests assured that the only right way for Ukraine is to attract foreign investment and to create investment guarantees in order to develop the agrarian market and Ukraine’s economy. There was a funny incident. While familiarizing themselves with the chemical-technological laboratory of Mykolayiv terminal, the guests did not want to leave one of the laboratory rooms for a long time. The reason was a patriotic delight, as they noticed CHOPIN mill made in France! “Our cooperative exports grain to Algeria and Italy. We are aware of your export geography. I dare say that your company and our French company are friends but not competitors. On seeing everything we realize that NIBULON is real granite, and it is hard to compete with the company”, resumed Pierre Guez, Dijon Céréales general director.
