Estonia: rail freight carriage down in October 2019

According to Statistics Estonia, freight carriage on Estonian railroads in October dropped by 17.7% YoY, to approximately 1.7 million tons. Compared with September freight carriage increased by 0.7%. In the first ten months of 2019 altogether 18 million tons of freight was carried on Estonian railroads, down by 22.3%. October freight transport turnover declined by…

Ukraine: PM announces program to finance startups

Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk will announce the start of a program for financing Ukrainian startups, according to the Government portal. The meeting on the launch of the program will be attended by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova, and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Startup…