Opening Iran-Khodro’s new site in Azerbaijan will turn Azerbaijan into the company’s export hub in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Iran-Khodro plans to manufacture 10,000 cars per year in Azerbaijan, which will be exported. Car imports to Azerbaijan fell after introducing the Euro-4 ecological standard over a year ago. In the first half of 2015,…
As of September 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 88.7 million tons in bunker weight, up by 25.6% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced. The agricultural organizations, which concentrated 67.9% of the whole planted areas under grains and pulses (excluding corn),…
UTair Aviation served the millionth Surgut International Airport passenger on September 16 Visiting Surgut on her way home to Ufa, Elvira Zaripova became the millionth passenger at the airport. Representatives of UTair and Surgut International Airport held a ceremony to award the jubilee passenger in the check-in area. The Ufa native was presented with a…
Uralkali in association with Uralchem, have presented a new joint project at the Khimia-2016 exhibition – production of granular amines. Granular amines are unique for the Russian chemical industry; they are intended to replace imported analogues in the domestic market. This is one of the basic reagents used in the flotation method of processing of…
According to market operators, since the beginning of September Ukrainian exporters shipped 150 KMT of wheat to India. It should be noted, that over July-August Ukraine exported about 240 KMT of wheat in this destination. India started purchasing Ukrainian wheat in June, buying about 52 KMT. Last time India bought Ukrainian wheat was 10 years…
Aeroflot will remain under majority Russian government control until at least 2020, Oksana Tarasenko, the Director of the Corporate Governance Department in Russian Ministry of Economic Development, reported. In February the carrier was touted as a possible candidate for privatization after Moscow announced plans to sell off various state-owned corporations and shareholdings in a bid…
In January-August the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine increased by 1% YoY at the expense of rising production volumes of plant growing commodities, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine announced. In particular, the production of plant growing products grew by 1.7%, while livestock products output was down by 2.4%. According to the statistics…