Volodymyr Osadchuk

General Manager of COFCO Agri Ukraine

Ukraine

Since 1996 Volodymyr Osadchuk worked in such companies as Interagro and Cargill. In 2008 he became the Head of Trade Department at Noble Agri Company which was later renamed COFCO Agri Resources Ukraine. The Ukrainian group of companies COFCO Agri is a part of the Chinese grain corporation COFCO International, one of the largest producers, processors, and traders of agricultural products in China.

Within COFCO International group of companies, the Ukrainian branch activities are aimed at providing a full range of transporting agricultural products from a commodity producer to the end user in China, Asian and the Middle East countries, Africa and Europe.

COFCO Agri Ukraine also works in the area of river navigation development and actively invests in the process of expanding logistics infrastructure. In 2014 the company acquired the Danube Shipping and Stevedoring Company, where the construction of a grain terminal with a storage capacity of 127,000 tons was completed on the basis of wharfs No. 1 and No. 2 of the Nikolayev Commercial Sea Port. The annual trans-shipment capacity is 2.5 million tons. Another project of COFCO Agri Ukraine was the added loading of vessels in the roadstead.

Volodymyr Osadchuk is a National Agrarian University graduate with Foreign Economic Activities specialty, Ph.D. in Economics.