Traditionally, annually at the end of May Odessa turns from a resort city of Ukraine into a business platform on the Black Sea coast, where representatives of the grain and maritime industries bring together from all over the world. The companies Dealex , Nortrop , and Codeska acted as Partners of the conference.
The first conference day focused on the global issues β macroeconomics, the prospects of development of the global grain market in the new season, as well as the current conditions and challenges of the maritime industry. In addition, foreign speakers shared their experience on how business can build international relations with the prospective consumer markets.
Speaking on the sidelines of the forum, S. Chakraborty noted that the growing interest of Ukrainian agricultural traders in developing of communication with buyers of Ukrainian grains from Southeast Asia, North Africa and India became the positive trend of the conference.
In the future conference projects, the organizers plan to pay more attention to more close negotiation of product suppliers and consumers. Oleg Onischenko SGS Ukraine reported about the quality and phytosanitary features of soft wheat, corn and soybeans of the harvest, while the representative of JSC Lithuanian Railways in Ukraine shared the experience of successful railway transportation and noted that the IX Transport corridor that connects Ukraine and Lithuania, provides the direct opportunity to enter the large-scale market of Scandinavian countries through the port of Klaip?
The parallel section "International business by new rules" provided the platform for the leading lawyers of Interlegal β Marta Sverdlykivska, Daria Liashenko and Victoria Russeva, under moderation of Irina Voyevodina, Partner of Interlegal. The experts focused on the following main questions: how to restructure a business in the BEPS terms bank account management, substance, corporate structures , where is it profitable to register a company and keep on the safe side, as well as how business can use benefits of the foreign exchange liberalization.
