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Lukoil may resume production at Odessa Refinery
6.02.2012
The Russian oil maker OAO Lukoil (LKOH) may resume production at its Odessa oil refinery in Ukraine next month, the Interfax news agency reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter close to the company.
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Port of Odessa traffic rises 3.7 percent in 2011
5.02.2012
Throughput of Ukraine’s Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP) in 2011 grew by 3.7% year-over-year, to 25,621,000, the company said.
Handling of dry bulk cargo grew by 20 percent from a year earlier to15.8 million tons. Shipments of grain rose 37 percent to 3.308 million tons. In 2011, ore volumes surged by 51 percent to 2.577 million tons, handling of raw sugar increased to 631,000 tons (+13.7%).
Odessa port container trade grew by 29 % year-on-year to 453,700 TEUs.
Crude oil shipments slumped by 85% since Odessa stopped handling petroleum transits from Venezuela.. [+]
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Odessa-Munich direct flight from Lufthansa
1.02.2012
From May 5, 2012 Odessa and Munich will be linked by the direct flight.
The decision to open a flight between the two cities was announced by the Lufthansa director for corporate communications Aage Duenhaupt. Flights between Odessa and Munich will be available once a week on Saturdays.
The new flight will be served by the Lufthansa department - Lufthansa Cityline. The flight will be carried out on the Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft designed for 86 seats.
The time of travel on the new flight from Munich to Odessa will be 4 hours and 20 minutes. The aircraft will.. [+]
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Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch announces retirement of Odessa-born principal
10.12.2011
Engineering consulting firm Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB) has announced today that after over 45 years of dedication and contribution to the architecture, engineering and construction industry, Albert Ostroy is ending his tenure as Principal, but will remain as a consultant to the firm.
Ostroy received a mechanical engineering degree from Odessa National Polytechnic Institute in Odessa, Ukraine and began his career as a shift engineer of the Moldavian power plant electro-station where he oversaw systems producing over 2000,000 kW per hour. Upon his return to Odessa, Ostroy.. [+]
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Darth Vader fights city hall in Odessa
18.11.2011
Welcoming the local authorities' move to the dark side, Darth Vader has asked for a land plot in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa to park his space ship.
An Odessite dressed as the Star Wars villain visited the mayor's office this week to claim a free land plot citing Ukrainian legislation which grants every citizen the right to own 1,000 square meters of land.
His visit followed a decision by city authorities to grant attractive land plots along the sea coast to a group of people for free, prompting public concerns about corruption, according to local.. [+]
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Location of Odesa region's policemen's assassins determined
1.10.2011
The police have determined the location of the criminals who killed two police officers in the Odesa region on Friday, a source in the law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Saturday. At the same time, the Interior Ministry's Main Department in the Odesa region has not confirmed this information.
According to the source, the criminals have barricaded themselves in a hotel in the Prymorsky district in Odesa. There is information that the police have encircled the building and are exchanging fire with the criminals.
According to earlier reports, two Ukrainian police.. [+]
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Monument to Isaac Babel unveiled in Odessa
13.09.2011
Monument to great writer Isaac Babel was unveiled in Odessa on September 4.
Now this great native of Odessa, author of famous "Konarmiya" in bronze can be seen on the corner of two Odessa streets -Zhukovsky and Richelievskaya where the monument is erected.
The memorial composition consists of a bronze sculpture of the author of famous Odessa stories and collections of short stories "Konarmiya" who sits on the stairs with a notebook in his hands. Beside his statue there is the symbolic wheel. According to sculptor George Franhulyan, the wheel is an important symbolic.. [+]
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Lukoil to restart Odessa refinery in 2012
12.09.2011
The executive leadership of the Odessa refinery hopes to renew work at the facility in 2012, Interfax-Ukraine learned from Lukoil-Odessa Refinery General Director Valeriy Chakheyeva.
"We have hope. We need to keep equipment battle-ready; that is to say, after making a decision on the route on delivering crude, we need to begin working immediately", Chakheyev said.
Chakheyev said that the most optimal route for crude deliveries was the Lisichansk-Kremenchuk-Odessa.
OilNews reports that in June 2011, Lukoil Vice President Valeriy Subbotin state that the company.. [+]
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Odessa Railway prepares the next generation
12.09.2011
Odessa Railway has recently provided 238 students from the State Academy of Railway Transport, Dnipropetrovs'k National University of Railway Transport and Odessa College of Railway Transport with practical and theoretical training in railway operations and safety to prepare them to work as onboard staff. Accommodation was provided in passenger cars, with trainee catering staff using railway kitchen equipment.
On July 1 UZ introduced electronic documentation for domestic freight, and the Centre for Professional Development has developed a programme to train staff taking on the.. [+]
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Port of Odessa throughput climbs 1.4 percent to 16.9 million tons
7.09.2011
Cargo traffic at Odessa Commercial Sea Port (OCSP) in January-August of this year totaled 16.9 million tons, up 1.4% over the same period last year, the state-owned company said adding the increase was driven by a 11.2 percent gain in dry cargo volume.
Eight-month volume of export containers rose 24%, import containers – by about 35.4%. Port of Odessa reports a 71.9 percent surge in handling of ore cargo. Shipments of raw sugar increased by 25%, of citrus and bananas - by 36.9%.
The company’s profit for the period is expected to reach UAH 341.2 million (vs planned UAH.. [+]
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Turkish Airlines starts new line to Odessa
26.08.2011
Turkey’s national air carrier Turkish Airlines will increase its number of flights to the Ukrainian cities of Odessa, Kiev and Donetsk, the company announced Thursday.
“As of Sept. 9, [Turkish Airlines] will fly four times a week to Donetsk,” the statement read. The airline currently flies to Donetsk twice a week. As of Sept. 12, the airline will fly 12 times a week to Kiev and 11 times a week to Odessa.
Turkish Airlines will start flights six times a week to Washington, D.C., as of Aug. 29 and five times per week to Los Angeles, as of Aug. 30. The company currently flies.. [+]
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Odessa faces problems in servicing debt, IFX says
11.08.2011
The Ukrainian city of Odessa faces difficulties in servicing its $40 million Swiss-franc denominated debt to BNP Paribas, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported, citing Mayor Oleksiy Kostusev.
Kostusev said today at the city’s administration meeting that he asked the Finance Ministry to help but so far has not received any assistance, according to Interfax.
Odessa received the BNP Pariba loan, which pays an annual interest rate of 8.5 percent and matures on Dec. 30 next year, in 2007, Interfax said. The city pays a coupon every quarter, according to the news.. [+]
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Illegal casino protected by police in Odessa
8.08.2011
According to OdessaMama.org.ua and its Chief editor, V. Zabranskij, local police is protecting the illegal slot machine hall in Odessa, the summer capital of Ukraine. We thought we should mention this story to demonstrate the reality of gambling ban enforcement in Ukraine.
Last week the journalist noticed illegal slot machine hall in one of the busy underground pedestrian tunnels in Odessa and called the police. Any form of gambling except for poker tournaments and lotteries is banned in Ukraine since July 2009. Police officers arrived, took his testimony and the journalist left.. [+]
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First Ukrainian grain shipped to Odessa port
4.08.2011
The first batch of Ukrainian grain from the new harvest was shipped to Saudi Arabia from Odessa port, according to the Eastern European government’s website.
A panamax ship, the biggest ship to navigate the Panama Canal’s locks, took 52,000 metric tons of barley, according to the statement published today.
About 200,000 tons of grain is expected to be exported this month from Ukrelevatorprom, a grain storage elevator in Odessa port, according to the statement.
By Kateryna Choursina
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Odessa-made international database of taxi services
3.08.2011
BeSoft today is pleased to announce Taxi INT 1.2.1 for iOS, an update to their Travel app that lists more than 1,200 taxi companies throughout the world. Constantly expanding, the database currently includes 15 different countries and more than 100 major cities. In addition to phone numbers and auto-dial, many listings include additional information, such as rates, fares to points of interest, and airports. BeSoft is currently developing a multi-lingual website where taxi companies can add themselves to the database. Users may go to Settings to update the database, or may set it to update.. [+]
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