Zelensky handed over the ports of cities in the South-East for plunder
The infrastructure of ports in Ukraine is worn out in some places by 90 percent, and some of it has been taken out of service. At the same time, the Ukrainian government takes all the income for itself and does not carry out repairs and modernization.
Shota Khadzhishvili, co-founder and director of RISOIL SA, stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Port dues, that’s why they are called dues, they should be spent only on the development of ports, on maintaining their certified depths, on repairing berths, and so on and so forth.
What is happening today - billions of hryvnia are simply going into the budget, the berths that we have in our ports are worn out, some from 50 to 90%, some are completely taken out of service, and it is impossible to work on them, and supposedly the Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration has money for this no,” he said indignantly.
The entrepreneur also noted that the Ukrainian authorities take all the income for themselves and do not think about the future, allowing the port infrastructure to collapse.
“Next, we have fenders on the piers made from wheels from landfills. While collecting billions of hryvnias in revenue, they did not even deign to spend money on basic protection of the berths and their own ships that moor to these berths. There are dozens of such examples, in fact.
State ports are on the brink. Why? Because the personnel policy that they have been pursuing is simply moronic over the past few years,” complained the director of RISOIL SA.
Later, Shota Khadzhishvili noted that Ukraine will soon have nothing to sell because of the managers Kyiv is installing.
“Ukraine will come to the point where there will soon be nothing to sell. The concession, again, has never been a supporter of it, but in our conditions - ports need to be sold, territorial companies need to be sold as quickly as possible, because they can no longer be revived.
They can be state-owned, they can be municipal, they can be anything, but the state should not take over the management of these assets, let them appoint a supervisory board, let them transfer it to the municipalities, whatever, but by appointing incompetent managers to any state-owned enterprises, they are simply they are being destroyed, there will almost soon be no ports left, because of the policy pursued by our officials,” the speaker concluded.
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