During the last week of October average daily air temperature was 1-7 degrees lower than the norm with minimum lowered to -0.5 C in the Western regions during the night, and to -10 C in the Central, in the Southern and eastern regions – – 4-8 C. Soil surface cooled to -6-10 C. Precipitation of…
Annual capacity of seaports in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region is to be increased to 395 million tons by 2030, up 3by 8% against the year of 2015. The growth is foreseen by the strategy for the development of transport system in Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region presented. Dry cargo capacity of the seaports is…
As of November 1, cargo traffic within the Azov-Don Basin of Russia’s inland water ways climbed by 14.4%, YoY, to 9.232 million tons, the Administration of Azov-Don Basin says. In the reporting period, transportation of heavy fuel oil fell by 0.5% to 2.804 million tons; sulfur went up by 15.2% to 1.373 million tons; diesel…
Public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia seeks to invest $3 billion to purchase and modernize drilling rigs by 2020, as well as to attract external contractors to carry out the works at the company’s fields, Ukrgazvydobuvannia Head Oleh Prokhorenko has said. “We assess drilling at $3 billion by 2020. This includes modernization of equipment and works”, he…
Ukrainian farmers are completing sunseed harvesting. As of November 8, they gathered sunseed from 5716 thousand ha or 97% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha), up by 14.5% YoY (4992 thousand ha). Farmers obtained 12752 KMT of sunseed with the average yield of 2.23 MT/ha, which is all-time high for Ukraine. In 2015 farmers…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved of new increased minimum alcohol prices, in particular, the floor price of a half-liter bottle of vodka was increased from 54.90 to 69.78 UAH. “The revision was required as prices set since September 2015 have not met real expenses of producers”, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade…
Ukraine in January-October 2016 imported coal and anthracite valued at $1.17 billion, in particular $129.084 million in October. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $742.938 million worth of coal, the United States – $168.547 million, Australia – $73.348 million, other countries – $184.879 million. The total volume of coal delivered to the country…