FDI trouble in Yushni – Delta Wilmar suspends investment

Not without fanfare in October 2017 came the announcement of FDI from Singapore at Yushni – the deepest port on the Black Sea.

It appears however, that Delta Wilmar, one of the planet’s largest agricultural product processors has run into trouble in Odessa – perhaps unsurprisingly.

The Ukrainian leadership is known for making a lot of self-congratulatory noise and then disappearing in search of the next PR headline – leaving behind whatever then evolves often without so much as casting a nurturing eye over the well-being of inward investors.  It is a special form of self-defeating political folly in a nation where the leadership’s grasp upon the rule of law is decidedly and unambiguously weak.