On March 5, 2015, representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) visited the transshipment terminal of “Pereyaslavs’ka” branch (Kyiv region).
NIBULON’s modern facility was visited by the Chief of the Investment Centre Service for Europe, Central Asia, Near East, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Mohamed Manssouri; Andriy Yarmak, an economist of the given Service; and by Dmytro Prykhodko, an economist at FAO Investment Centre.
It should be noted that NIBULON has a long-term business relations with the given international organization. As the renowned exporter, our company has repeatedly won tenders for grain supply to the countries where hunger dominates, announced by FAO as part of the United Nations World Food Programme.
In addition, FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD) publicly acknowledged NIBULON’s experience as the key one to ensure food security.  This was announced by the EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti during the International Conference “Promoting Private Agricultural Investment and Trade from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean” on September 13, 2012.
During the Conference “Private Sector for Food Security: Improving the Investment Climate in Egypt’s Agrarian Sector” organized by FAO and the EBRD on June 27, 2013, the Minister of Melioration and Agriculture of Egypt said that he would like NIBULON to construct facilities to store grain crops imported  to Egypt.
Thus, a visit of FAO guests to the transshipment terminal in Kyiv region has become the next stage to develop cooperation with NIBULON.
During the meeting Artem Novokhatko, the branch director, familiarized the guests with the technical capacities at the facility, principles of its operation and technological peculiarities.
He stressed that NIBULON’s modern terminal was an important component in the agro-industrial sector of the region, and NIBULON was acknowledged as the leader in the Ukrainian agro-industrial complex and as the company that invested in the development of the domestic infrastructure.
FAO representatives visited the terminal’s modern laboratory, where they observed grain receipt, sampling methods and laboratory equipment. The guests were particularly interested in measuring GMO, by using qualitative method at the branch laboratory and quantitative method in the laboratory of the main grain terminal in Mykolayiv city.
Having thanked for the meeting, Mohamed Manssouri said that he was satisfied with the terminal’s technological level that was skillfully combined with landscape design and labour organization.