Public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia is testing TE33€ freight diesel locomotive made by General Electric Corporation (the United States). “The General Electric’s locomotive is being tested in Ukraine. The tests will last for four months. All its capabilities will be tested”, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said at the presentation of the locomotive in Kyiv. He…
On September 27, Uralkali held its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (EGM) in the town of Berezniki (Perm Territory). Uralkali’s EGM elected the new board of directors, including Sergey Chemezov, Dmitry Konyaev, Dmitry Lobyak, Luc Maene, Sir Robert Margetts, Dmitry Mazepin, Dmitry Osipov, Paul Ostling and Dimitry Tatyanin. The EGM also elected the new revision…
Ukrainian farmers continue to harvest sunflower. As of September 26, 3160.6 thousand ha had been threshed, or 53% of the planned area (5916.2 thousand ha), down by 2% YoY (3227 thousand ha). 6757.6 KMT was obtained with the average yield of 2.14 MT/ha (in 2015 – 6619 KMT with yield of 2.05 MT/ha). Soybeans had…
Ukraine, that lost three places in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published by the World Economic Forum a year ago, has fallen six places more and was 85th among 138 countries. Ukraine had low scores in the following areas: financial market development (130th), institutions (129th), macroeconomic environment (128th), goods market efficiency (108th) and business sophistication…
In August Ukraine exported 2851.2 KMT of wheat, up by 50% YoY (1892.8 KMT). Over the first two months of the current season Ukrainian exporters shipped 34% more wheat than over the same period of last season (3575.5 KMT against 2662.4 KMT in July-August 2015/16). Thailand is still the key importer of Ukrainian wheat with…
As of September 26, winter crops had been sown at 2158 thousand ha, or 29% of the forecast area (7374 thousand ha). This included 2024 thousand ha of winter wheat and triticale (33% from the planned 6198 thousand ha), 79 thousand ha of rye (54% of 147 thousand ha), 55 thousand ha of barley (5%…
The results of a survey of agrarians of Ukraine conducted by the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB), showed a significant improvement relative to August 2015 of the business climate in Ukraine agriculture, the press service of the UCAB reports. “In August for the first time since the introduction of ABI, the business climate in Ukraine’s agriculture…