Russia: inventors create mini-helicopter

Russian inventors from Aeromechanics Company unveil Micron gyrocopter. They’ve created what’s believed to be one of the smallest and lightest helicopters in the world. The invention weighs only 115 kilograms and can reach speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour. The chopper can easily take off from any landing site with a 10-meter diameter.…

Russia: seaports grain handling up in H1 2016

According to the Association of Russian Seaports, in January-June grain handling in ports of the country increased by 29.4% YoY, to 12.1 MMT. In the first half of 2016 cargo turnover in Russian seaports grew by 6%, to 344.6 MMT. Such considerable increase in grain handling in Russian seaports became possible due to record export…

Ukraine: grain stocks down

As of July 1, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones), and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine stocked 7.032 million tons of grains (including 3.013 million tons of wheat, 2.178 million tons of corn, 1.512 million tons of barley, 46.5 thousand tons of rye), down by 839 thousand tons YoY, the State Statistics Service of…

Ukraine to boost railways freight traffic with Poland

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) has signed the memorandum with the Center for Steel Industry Supply (Poland) to boost freight traffic across the borders of two countries. This is reported by the Ukrzaliznytsia press service. “According to the memorandum, the parties expressed their intention to cooperate to boost freight traffic across the state border between the two…