According to the Association of Russian Seaports, in January-June grain handling in ports of the country increased by 29.4% YoY, to 12.1 MMT. In the first half of 2016 cargo turnover in Russian seaports grew by 6%, to 344.6 MMT. Such considerable increase in grain handling in Russian seaports became possible due to record export…
In the current year the average yield of early grains and pulses in Ukraine will exceed the index of 2015 by 0.4 t/ha, which will completely ensure the domestic demand and export potential, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared, referring to the updated harvesting data from regions. According to the announcement,…
As of July 1, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones), and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine stocked 7.032 million tons of grains (including 3.013 million tons of wheat, 2.178 million tons of corn, 1.512 million tons of barley, 46.5 thousand tons of rye), down by 839 thousand tons YoY, the State Statistics Service of…
PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine plans to buy 3.5 million tons of grain of the new harvest, according to the corporation’s press service. Also, the press service reported that the corporation purchased 3.15 million tons of grain worth over 11 billion UAH in the 2015/2016 marketing year. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) has signed the memorandum with the Center for Steel Industry Supply (Poland) to boost freight traffic across the borders of two countries. This is reported by the Ukrzaliznytsia press service. “According to the memorandum, the parties expressed their intention to cooperate to boost freight traffic across the state border between the two…
On July 20, Ukraine International Airlines received the brand new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft manufactured at Boeing facilities in Seattle, the US. The new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft can accommodate 186 passengers in two class seating configuration. The aircraft passed an official registration procedure in Ukraine and received the UR-PSR registration number. Therefore, Ukraine International…
A new modern dock, manufactured by UkrOboronProm Kherson State Plant “Pallada”, arrived to the customer in South Africa. The total contract value amounts to almost 250 million UAH. The dock was transferred in late April, at the presence of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, after 2.5 months the dock entered the port of the…