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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved candidates of four independent members and three representatives of the state in the supervisory board of state-owned enterprise (SOE) Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Oleksandr Saenko wrote on his Facebook page on Feb. 4.

“Today, the government approved the composition of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority elected by the committee. It consists of four independent candidates and three representatives of the state,” he wrote.

The supervisory board includes Wolfgang Hurtienne (Germany), Jan Van Shoonhoven, (the Netherlands), Patrick Verhoeven (Belgium) and Yulia Klymenko (Ukraine). Dmytro Barinov, Anton Yashchenko and Taras Trotsky joined the supervisory board as representatives of the state.

As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on October 11, 2018 announced a tender to select independent members of the supervisory board of the authority.

The authority counts on the successful completion of the corporatization process by the end of 2019 if it is included in the list of strategic companies that can be corporatized before the end of 2018.

To participate in the tender to select members of the supervisory board, applications were submitted, in particular, by 46 Ukrainians, seven candidates from the Netherlands, five from Germany, four from Belgium, three candidates each from Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United Kingdom. The recruiter was Boyden Global Executive Search.