Ukrzaliznytsia in 2016 plans to repair 100 passenger cars and next year – 200 cars, making them modern with vacuum water closets, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said. “The standards will be changed. We will stop using feather pillows and blankets with dust. The European service will be introduced. It will meet hygiene standards. We…
After some slowdown in 2015, Ukraine’s poultry production is returning to its upward trend, according to the latest report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Production in 2016 is expected to be record-high, and production in 2017 is expected to continue the growth, boosted by low feed grain prices from the…
Ukraine needs to lift the ban on export of timber and settle the issue of social payments to internally displaced persons in order to get the next tranche of macro-financial assistance to the tune of 600 million EUR from the EU, new head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli has said. The…
The Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Indonesia in cooperation with the State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection informed about expansion of the list of Ukrainian agricultural products allowed for exports to Indonesia, the Council of Exporters and Investors under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine declared. Previously Ukraine was able…
On October 3-9, Ukraine exported 545.9 thousand tons of grains from the seaports against 1.02 million tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 312 thousand tons, barley – 155.6 thousand tons, and corn – 78.3 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Turkey has proposed to control safety of all food products delivered to the Russian market as well as fine suppliers of unsafe foods, Deputy Minister of Turkey’s Food, Agriculture and Livestock Nusret Yazici said at the meeting with the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergey Dankvert. “The products recognized…
The share of Turkish goods hit by Russian sanctions introduced early in 2016 accounted for 22% in the structure of Russian import from Turkey or nearly $1 billion in 2015, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development said in draft customs and tariff policy guidelines for 2017-2019. If Russian sanctions continue to be in effect by…