In January-June Murmansk Sea Fishing Port handled 144,400 tons of cargo, down by 21.6% YoY, the stevedoring company’s statistics show. In the reported period, the company handled 86,400 tons of fish products (down by 17.5% YoY). In June the company handled 21,100 tons of cargo (down by 4.7% MoM), including 18,800 tons of fish products…
In May large and medium sized enterprises of Ukraine produced 326.5 KMT of sunflower oil compared to 348 KMT in April 2016 and 279 KMT in May 2015. Since the beginning of the season 3063.4 KMT of sunflower oil was produced, up by 53.6 KMT YoY. Considering the tendency of Ukrainian sunflower oil production by…
Saudi Arabia has started preparations for organizing batch production of new An-132 multipurpose aircraft with a carrying capacity of 9.2 tons being designed by Antonov State Enterprise (Kyiv) in cooperation with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and Taqnia Aeronautics Co. (both based in Saudi Arabia). KACST Director Khalid A. Almalki said at…
In May Russia exported 123 KMT of barley compared with 297.2 KMT in May 2015. Saudi Arabia and Iran were the main importers of Russian barley in May. Since the beginning of the current season barley exports from Russia have decreased by 18% to 4230.7 KMT. Thus, until the end of the current season barley…
Russia’s budget deficit may exceed the planned 3% and reach 3.2% of GDP in 2016, according to the documents released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Russia’s budget deficit is on track to reach around 3% of budget deficit by the end of this year, which is in line…
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has signed a basic non-disclosure agreement with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Zarubezhneft over two oil fields in the western Iran, NIOC said in a statement. Under the agreement, the Russian company will study West Paydar and Aban oil fields and present its proposals to increase the recovery rate of…
According to official data, by July 8, Russian farmers have threshed 2579 thousand ha (5.5%) of grains and legumes against 1777.5 thousand ha by the same date in 2015. 11221.5 KMT was harvested with average yield 4.35 MT/ha (in 2015 – 6698.4 KMT with 3.77 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 1670.3 thousand ha (6.1%), up…