Prime Minister: Customs experiment will enable the country to accumulate UAH 12 billion for the construction and rebuilding of the road infrastructure

The experiment on allocation of funds obtained as a result of overfulfilment of targets from customs to trigger construction and repair of the road system will enable the country to accumulate the sum worth 12 billion hryvnias. These figures that in the aggregate with other sources of financing, namely funds of financial decentralization process, public finances and assistance from international financial organizations will meet the need for appropriations for road repair activities during this year. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman in the course of his inspection trip to Poltava region.

The Head of Government inspected the state of repair on the road M-03 Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhansky, also the construction and overhaul of which are being financed through funds of the World Bank.

«We have good dynamics of planned incomes from payment of customs duties: 12 billion UAH obtained as a result of overfulfillment of the planned revenues will be directed to all regions for the construction and repair of roads. We intend to introduce amendments to the state budget, one of the said amendments is to allocate funds for construction of a new road Lviv – Khmelnytsky – Vinnytsia – Uman – Odesa - Mykolaiv. This route will connect our werstern board with ports, thus it is an important transport corridor for the country», highlighted the Prime Minister.