Let’s take a number of articles with headlines “Kherson branch of the USPA desperately puts pressure on NIBULON”, “The court defended NIBULON from unjustified payments to Kherson branch of the USPA”, “NIBULON explained how to work within the law to Kherson branch of the USPA”, “The USPA continues kinking, but NIBULON confidently stalls them”, “NIBULON again clamps down on Kherson branch of the USPA (source – Verkhovenstvo Prava website) published in December 2018 – January 2019.  
Unfortunately, the media representatives haven’t asked NIBULON as a participant in the process to comment. We are forced to explain this situation, since a free interpretation of the events by the media doesn’t correspond to the company’s official position.
During the previous years, officials tried to do everything to make our company, which possesses the most modern cargo fleet in Ukraine, stop investing (including in shipbuilding) and to use services of third parties that were close to them. To this end, various barriers were created. Sometimes there were absurd situations, in which NIBULON’s vessel within the water area of ​one port had to pay a port fee in the amount of 4 rates, which is twice more than those paid by vessels under a foreign flag. Depending on the instructions of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, a domestic carrier had been receiving invoices at a double rate. We had been issued unreasonable accounts for Mykolaiv Sea Port for more than one year.  We had been receiving invoices for services that were not even provided. For example, an additional payment for the water area above the tonnage dues in the form of a transfer of water for lease (use) during loading operations had been required.  Kherson branch of the USPA had issued more than 1,000 invoices for services that were not actually provided by the port, and our applications were not submitted by our company as we do not carry out any cargo operations in this port. We were forced to go to court to protect the company’s interests.
Unlike the previous one, the management of the USPA and its Kherson branch really treats business as a partner and defends the interests of Ukrainian companies, rather than protects the schemes of previous management. Having assessed the situation, the head of the USPA Raivis Veckagans and NIBULON’s General Director signed a peace settlement. This will save both budget funds for litigation and will free the specialists of the legal services of both companies from the protracted trial.
For our part, we expressed our readiness to compensate all court costs in order to exclude possible manipulations or claims of any interested parties or organizations about alleged damage to the state.
We are also grateful to the management of the USPA for smart initiatives and real solutions that are really aimed at developing civilized relations between the state and private business. After all, all these measures will help to reduce the corruption ties and the burden on business.  Therefore, this will bring benefits to the investment attractiveness of Ukraine.
We emphasize once again that the information distributed by Verkhovenstvo Prava website does not correspond to the company’s position. We are grateful to state bodies and executives who are taking real steps to strengthen the Ukrainian economy and to overcome such corrupt remnants.
Our company asks the media not to seek out #treason if it is absent and sensations in fictitious negative news, but to pay more attention to positive trends in the economy and relations between the state and business. After all, there will be no real improvements and real changes in our country without such steps.