About Odessa
Odessa city
Odessa city being the
administrative center of the region of the same name with its over 1 mln.
inhabitants population and satellite cities of Illyichevsk and Yuzhny is an
important industrial and trading complex.
The city is situated on the
Black sea north-western seashore on the trading routes from the Central and
Northern Europe to the Close East and Asia crossing. Developed highways
network, city location near Danube, Dnestr, Southern Bug, and Dnepr rivers, as
well as large seaports of Odessa, Illyichevsk and Yuzhny with Odessa
international airport and railway create the unique favorable conditions for
loads accepting, processing, saving and transporting and the powerful passenger
flows processing.
Odessa economics is dominated by the
establishments dealing with the sea business, and also the food and processing
establishments of light industry. Odessa government offers its priority support
to the industry branches aimed at different customers’ needs satisfaction. We
also administrate the spheres of healthcare, education, housing building, city
transport, culture, communal services, municipal property ground areas and
realty sales. The City administration also deals with the business activity
licensing.
Thanks to the beautiful
sanatoriums, beaches and recreation complexes, Odessa attracts a lot of
tourists, especially in summer. Tourist business is attractive and profitable.
Since Odessa
has got a lot of educational establishments, theaters, museums, libraries and
other cultural and educational profile establishments, the city is known all
over the world and is considered to be both the economical and the cultural
center of Ukraine.
But the city’s main treasure
is its inhabitants. They have always been known for their business astuteness,
initiative and tolerance. Odessa is the only city in Ukraine which has so many
nations living in it and having really great relationships with each other.
From their very childhood, the Odessites are being brought up in the atmosphere
of hospitality, warm-heartiness and wicked humor, that’s why no feuds have ever
happened and will ever happen here.
Odessa’s doors are always open for cultural
and business cooperation!
WELCOME TO ODESSA!
Odessa – the Northern Black sea
region economical center
Odessa is one of Ukraine’s economical centres
which has a large sea port, developed industry, resort and recreation complex,
transport, financial and social infrastructure. Odessa is mostly dealing with
transport and external trade on the international labour division.
The city is
situated on the Black sea north-western seashore on the trading routes from the
Central and Northern Europe to the Close East and Asia crossing. The
international transport route #9, which connects Finland, Russia, Lithuania, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, passes through Odessa.
Odessa city port is the largest one in Ukraine: it has the power of 20 mln. Load tons a year, the total shoreline length of 8 km, accepts the vessels of up to 250 m length and up to 12.5 m waterline. The port transport lines are connected with over 600 ports of 100 world countries. There are ferry
crossings connecting Odessa port with Turkey and Greece. According to the
common classification parameters, the port is considered to belong to the
largest ones class, has the international category and the active load
turnaround and is the polifunctional type trading port. According to “About the
special (free) Porto-Franco economical zone” law of Ukraine, a free economical
zone, where the economical activity subjects have got the special term tax
regime, is created on Odessa sea trading port territory.
The railroad, automobile,
aviation and pipe transport are developed in the city of Odessa as well.
Odessa is the Ukraine’s only fully formed
local territorial manufacture complex and an industrial center. The city’s
industrial production manufacture structure is mostly dominated by the food
industry, machine building and metal processing, oil industry, black metallurgy,
building materials industry, chemical, oil-chemical, light and medicine
industry establishments.
The city has an International
Airports, which is one of the Ukraine’s largest ones, and its airlines are
connected with many cities of Ukraine, CIS, and the countries of the Western
Europe, Asia and Africa as well. Considering Odessa’s profitable
geographical location as the Euro-Asian airlines crossing, powerful transport
center, as well as the world leading expert companies’ making their predictions
of the passenger and load aviation transportations increase, the Airport is
supposed to be reequipped to meet the international demands. According to
Ukraine Cabinet of ministers’ decree, the airport is handed into the city’s
communal property.
In Odessa, there are the
National Bank of Ukraine branch, over 30 commercial banks, including the
branches and depts, 27 insurance companies and their branches, Ukraine fund stock-exchange branch.
In comparison to the other
cities of Ukraine, Odessa has started its business development way much
earlier, and has achieved great results in trading. The ancient
traditions of Odessa city as Ukraine’s south trading center have actively
developed in this sphere.
There are over 467 foreign
capital joint ventures in the city. The President’s “About the ground areas of
non-agricultural destination sale” decree, which allows the investors to
purchase the establishments together with the ground they are located on, was
an important step in the favorable investment climate creating. The city
administration is also considering providing the investors with the special
terms taxes. We are also ready to provide the municipal guarantees of
returning credits destined for financing projects of high importance for the city
development.
The city is ready for wide
mutually profitable cooperation in every sphere. The greatest assistance will
be delivered to the business activity subjects realizing the projects in the
following branches:
• residential realty
building;
• creating new establishments
of food and processing manufacture and reconstructing the old ones;
• tourism development;
• city water- and heat-supply
systems modernization;
• energy-saving technologies
introduction.
Such cooperation is possible
mostly on the level of establishments and firms. The cooperation itself may be
coordinated and improved by Odessa city council Investment policy dept. Here,
one can get the necessary information on one’s queries and establish the
contacts with the according city organizations, establishments and depts.
