Belarus plans to sign an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China to promote Chinese direct investments to the tune of about $5 billion, Belarus’ Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky reported. “During this visit (the state visit of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to the People’s Republic of China on September 28-30) a loan agreement with the…
Turkey is interested in agrarian products and research institutions in the agricultural sector. This has been said by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva after the third meeting of the Ukrainian-Turkish working group on agriculture. “Ukraine is interested in exports of vegetable oils, including sunflower, as well as…
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…