
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.