The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has estimated GDP growth in Ukraine in the second quarter of 2018 at 3.2% YoY. “According to the NBU estimates, the pace of real GDP growth remained practically unchanged in the second quarter, that is 3.2% (3.1% in Q1), and domestic demand was the main driver of the real…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has met with the managers of the French automaker Renault and discussed the prospects for production location in Ukraine. “I have met with the managers of the leading automaker, the French company Renault. We discussed the possibility of locating the Renault production in Ukraine. This would help create additional jobs…
Freight volume handled at the Port of Klaipeda in January-June grew by 7.6% YoY, to 22.2 million tons, the Port Authority statistics said. Container throughput totaled 74,370 TEUs. In the reporting period the port serviced 143,180 passengers, up by 1%. The number of calls totaled 3,257 (+0.4%). The state-run Port of Klaipeda, the northernmost ice-free…
Enterprises affiliated with the Agriculture and Food Ministry increased exports 2.4-fold to the countries of Asia and Oceania in January-May, Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, reported. “Work on export diversification continues. We have seen positive dynamics practically on all tracks except Russia.…
Kazakhstan has started supplying flour to Afghanistan through the new railway route, the press service of Kazakhstan Railways JSC reported. A flour-laden train has been sent from Kostanay station to Afghanistan, and the train will pass through the territory of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, according to the report. The length of the Kostanay-Bolashak-Serhetabad (Turkmenistan) route is…
In the first half of 2018, Ukrainian honey exports decreased by 43% YoY. “They totaled almost 17,000 tons worth $37 million,” Ann Burka, consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), posted on her Facebook page. According to FAO’s data for last year, Ukraine became one of the world’s three leading…
In January-June seaports of Ukraine handled 63.8 million tons of cargo, down by 3.1% YoY, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. The decrease should be attributed to the fall of grain exports (-10.3%) and ore exports (-26.5%). Total transshipment of export cargo fell by 8.9%, to 46.1 million tons. The highest growth in…