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He and his team can be found on the 6th (top) floor within the rabbit warren that is the Odessa Regional Administration building. (Thus any investor that enters this labyrinth is effectively at his mercy when it comes to actually finding their way out again.)
The result was a commitment by the blog to highlight some of the best opportunities for investment from a particularly long list. It will also bring to the attention of certain project initiators some of the worst project offerings. Some projects should be pushed as they are good projects for all concerned. Others should be pushed into the rubbish bin of wishful but financially retarded thinking.
As such, ad hoc, entries will appear over the coming weeks relating to the good, the bad (and some ugly) investment projects within the Odessa Oblast
This entry highlights an investment project that seems viable.
In 1999 the rail connection between Berezyne and Besarabyazka was dismantled for reasons that would seem politically rather unclear, if criminally somewhat more understandable.
The 1999 dismantling of this section of railway thus pushed goods moving between Moldova to and from the ports of Odessa via rail to go through the Kremlin sponsored enclave and smuggling haven of Transnistria, an area that falls beyond the direct control of Government Moldova.
As such the reconstruction of the Berezyne – Besarabyazka rail link would provide a goods rail link avoiding Transnistria entirely.
Accordingly any investor could be assured both Governments of Ukraine and Moldova would be very much in favour of using this reconstructed route for commodities such as coal, fertilizers, oil, black metals and iron ore. Indeed, reading between the lines, it is almost assuredly the case that such commodities would be immediately rerouted once the new track is in place.
Such assurances would naturally bring about numerous obvious methods for generating a return on capital employed for any investor – whichever method is ultimately agreed with the Odessa Regional Administration (there is certainly a degree of flexibility to accommodate any investor within the ORA).
It is hardly a difficult task to monitor the track usage and tonnage transported when only Ukrzaliznytsia and Calea Feratadin Moldova (both State owned rail entities) will use the track.
As is often the case, investors see most risk in the construction phase of any project. Indeed for really large investments such as PFI schemes it is common practice to refinance a project after the construction phase is completed and that risk is thus removed.
Thus to some basic numbers – for that is what counts for any investor. (For a full and detailed numbers breakdown a reader/investor is invited to contact Roman Kozlovskyi via the following email: rkozlovskyi@odessa.gov.ua or the blog can provide his mobile number more privately.)
Clearly there will not be much environmental impact in the reconstruction of a preexisting rail line. Most of what is required is already there by way of ground works and utilities. Thus the laying of 21.5 kilometers (20 in Ukraine and 1.5 in Moldova) of track and whatever ground work is required is not an infrastructure project haunted by unknown and unseen technical issues. The Odessa Regional Administration figures suggest 9 months to complete the project with a team of 30.
The investment sought is UAH 398256930, or about $15.4 million (exchange rate depending). Hardly a large sum, and in fact perhaps far too small for some investors to consider. Nevertheless, such is the low risk nature of this infrastructure project and the obvious methodologies provide that return on investment will be fairly swift and attractive, it therefore falls into the category of a good project for consideration.
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