The decree by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on simplifying the issuance of permits for the operation of a number of multi-apartment buildings will help revive the construction market, Nusret Ibrahimov, real estate expert, director general of the consulting company MBA Group, reported. He said that earlier, investors and construction companies couldn’t commission construction projects for…
The state budget has already received almost UAH 100 million from the sale of small-scale privatization facilities through the electronic procurement system ProZorro.Sale, Acting Head of the State Property Fund Vitaliy Trubarov wrote on his Facebook page. “Small-scale privatization has already brought almost UAH 100 million to the state budget in 2019. A total of…
In the first month of 2019, the overall cargo turnover in the seaports of Ukraine increased by 3.4% YoY, and totaled 11.1 million tons, declared the State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). In particular, the transshipment of export cargoes totaled 8.7 million tons (+12.5%). At the same time, the shipment volumes of grain cargoes…
In 2018, Uzbekistan increased the imports of vegetable oils by 42.1% in physical terms compared with the previous year, to 175.4 thousand tons, and in monetary terms – by 19.3%, to $147.4 million, declared the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources. In particular, the imports of sunflower oil demonstrated the most significant upward trend –…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the government of Georgia have signed a deal on the allocation of a EUR 250-million loan for “vitally important” infrastructure projects in Georgia, the government says. The deal was signed in Tbilisiby Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and Vice-President of EIB Vazil Hudak. Bakhtadze hailed EIB as “one of…
Azerbaijan’s GDP in January amounted to almost 5.9 billion manats, up by 2.9% YoY, the State Statistics Committee reported. GDP per capita was 601.1 manats. The volume of GDP produced in the non-oil sector of Azerbaijan increased by 2.7%, while there was an increase of 3.2% in the oil and gas sector. In 2018, except…
Ukraine will be able to stop using the imported gas in the next five years thanks to the opening of access to Ukrainian mineral resources. “We have many opportunities to become energy independent. We are starting to launch a very complex and closed system – access to Ukrainian subsoil assets. I believe that in the…