Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the economy of Ukraine has been growing for 11 quarters in a row, although it’s not enough and much still needs to be done. “Our goal is to reach 5-7% of GDP growth. We need to attract investments for this. We are moving in the ease of doing…
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has given a green light to exports of camel and mare milk from Kazakhstan during the nationwide teleconference in Astana. These food products will be exported by Golden Camel Group LTD based in Turkestan. This is the only enterprise that produces camel and mare milk powder in Kazakhstan. 90% of…
The transshipment volume at the Port of Gdansk keeps increasing, PGA says in a press release. Thanks to the result for the first half of the year, Gdansk’s port managed to go up by two positions in the ranking of the Baltic Sea’s largest ports. This new record brings it closer to the very top.…
New electricity tariffs may be approved in 2019, Deputy Head of the State Agency for Regulation of the Fuel and Energy Complex, Mirgul Aidarova, declared at a round table discussion. According to her, the peak of loan payments will come in 2025 – 11 billion soms. Kyrgyzstan has to determine the sources of financing by…
As of December 10, Ukrainian sugar refineries produced 1.574 million tons of sugar, according to the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers. “As of December 10, 1,574.0 thousand tons of sugar were produced and 11.64 million tons of sugar beets were processed,” reads the report. The sugar-refining season in Ukraine officially started on August 31.…
Natural gas reserves in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 9.6%, or by 1.65 billion cubic meters, to 15.5 billion cubic meters since November 7, when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its stocks. As of December 8 gas reserves in the country’s USFs were estimated at 15.542 billion cubic meters, down by…
Freight volume handled in the Port of Liepaja in January-November climbed by 13.8% YoY, to 6,893,000 tons, the Port Authority says. In the reporting period transshipment of grain grew by 22.3%, to 2,781,500 tons, anthracite – by 15.6%, to 1.32 million tons, and construction materials – by 21.9%, to 711,300 tons, while transshipment of oil…