A lack of fuel supplies to Tajikistan’s airlines is reportedly forcing the carriers to perform layovers at foreign terminals during long international flights. The problem appears to stem from a disagreement over money owed by the airlines to the Fuel Supply Company (OJSC Toplivo-Zapravochnaya Kompaniya or TZK), which occupies a monopoly position on Tajikistan’s aviation…
A set of documents and agreements was signed in Tashkent on May 25 following a meeting of the Uzbekistan-Turkey Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Uzbekistan-Turkey business forum. The documents and agreements envisage the implementation of around 30 projects in pharmaceutics, textile industry, electro-technical, construction and banking sectors, worth more than $2…
According to the official statistics figures, in July-April of the season 2016-2017 Ukraine exported 67.86 thousand tons of brewing barley, up 10.4-fold YoY (6.5 thousand tons). In the current MY, Belarus (53%), Poland (30%) and Romania (16%) became the main foreign buyers of brewing barley from Ukraine. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Belarus is ready to supply Tatarstan with electric buses, Belarus Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said as he met with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov on May 25. “Electric buses are being tested on Minsk streets today. It is a new type of transport for the CIS and we hope for a success of the project,” Andrei…
The board of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to lower the refinancing rate to 12.5% as of May 26, from 13% per annum. The decision was sealed in NBU resolution No. 318-rsh dated May 25, the NBU said in a statement. (Interfax-Ukraine/Business World Magazine)
According to the Ag Ministry of Ukraine, sunflower planting was completed on 5223.1 thousand ha as of May 22, that is 97% of the planned 5390.3 thousand ha (official data). Planting runs 4.8% ahead of last year’s pace. 4985 thousand ha of sunflower was sown at the same time a year ago. As of May…
Construction work has commenced in Ventspils industrial territory on Talsu Street 200. Latvian National Fisheries Producers’ Organization plans to build a fish freezer facility there, as reported by Ventspils Freeport. It is noted that the 7.3 ha territory on Talsu Street 200, which was used to house an animal farm during the Soviet era, remained…