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| Bill Delahunt |
Former Massachusetts Congressman Bill Delahunt is providing US government relations services to Ukraine’s OOO NPP Kherson Machine-Building Plant.
Delahunt Group International has a 10-month contract worth $200K with KhMBP, which is a 125-year-old manufacturer of agricultural equipment, such as self-propelled harvesters and reapers.
Ukraine is among the world’s top producers of wheat, barley and corn.
Delahunt and DGI consultant Nickolai Bobrov also will contact US agricultural experts in the biofuels and machinery export sector on behalf of KhMBP.
KhMBP ships its machines to Russia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.
Delahunt retired from Congress in 2011. As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he chaired its Europe subcommittee.
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