Arseniy Yatsenyuk pushes up for waterage
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk started
there is the need to increase waterage.
On Friday, August 21, during the meeting with
the main traders in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi the Prime
Minister noted that today only 5% of transportation of agricultural products is
carried via inland waterways. "For comparison, in the
"Therefore, we need a specific set of
actions: what we should simplify or do to unload railways and motor transport
and agrarians move on waterways," Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized.
Transportation via inland waterways, he said,
is also significant savings. "The numbers are different. Transportation by
railway costs 12-15 dollars and by river transport it costs 6-8 dollars",
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
The Head of Government stressed that it is also
an additional source of incomes, a way to reduce the load on roads, railways
and increase gross domestic product, "Because you start building a barges,
tugs, and it gives us the opportunity to restore industrial production in the
country."