According to the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Estonian business operators use various e-solutions (like the ones at The Marketing Heaven) and social media for showcasing their products and services, however they do not take advantage of all e-trade and -marketing opportunities in export. “Like elsewhere in the world, there are more and more…
In August terminals working at Ventpsils port transshipped at total of 1.5 million tons of cargoes. This year’s cargo turnover, on the other hand, has reached 15 million tons, which exceeds last year’s volume by 17%. Data published by Ventspils Freeport authority show that cargo turnover in a monthly perspective was 1.5 million, up by…
Large energy consumers will have to adopt energy management or energy audit by April 2018, Economy Ministry declared. Economy Ministry has sent letters to more than 1,000 businesses, asking them to perform energy audits and perform appropriate energy efficiency measures in the next four years to reduce general energy costs and thereby increase their competitiveness,…
Minsk conducted export and import operations with 188 countries in 2016, the National Statistics Committee reported. Last year the Belarusian capital exported $8.1 billion worth of products, or 34.6% of the country’s aggregate exports. Minsk companies exported tractors and tractive units, trucks, chemical products, refrigerators and freezers, timber, component parts for trucks and tractors, buses,…
Another batch of mutton has been shipped to Iran, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture reported. The work, done by Kazakhstan’s agricultural ministry together with the Iranian side, resulted in the harmonization of the veterinary requirements for supplying live sheep and chilled mutton from Kazakhstan to Iran. In addition, the requirements for…
DTEK Energo has increased investments in the development and upgrade of its thermal power plants and mines. Over eight months of 2017, the company invested UAH 3.6 billion in its enterprises, up by 80% YoY. Investments in DTEK Pavlogradvuhillia and DTEK Dobropilliavuhillia made UAH 2.9 billion in the past eight months, up by 80%. This…
Ukraine’s GDP growth this year is projected at 1.8%, while by 2020 this figure could reach 4%, President Petro Poroshenko stated in the Verkhovna Rada in his annual address on the internal and external situation of the country. “According to the results of this year, GDP growth is projected at 1.8%. We expect economic growth…