Compared to November 2018, industrial production output fell by 0.2% in November 2019. That was affected by output drop in manufacturing by 0.8% and in mining and quarrying by 16.9%, while in electricity and gas supply there was an increase of 3.9%. Output drop was registered in more than a half of manufacturing sectors, with…
Listed Estonian shipper Tallink Grupp carried a record 9,763,210 passengers on all of its vessels and routes combined in 2019, up by 0.1% YoY. The biggest increase in the number of passengers was on Tallink’s Finland-Sweden routes, where the company transported 1.7% more passengers in 2019 than in 2018. In total, the company transported 2,894,494…
In December 2019 prices in Georgia increased by 0.4%, while the annual inflation rate amounted to 7%, showed the latest inflation data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages in Georgia increased by 1.4% MoM, contributing 0.44% of the overall monthly inflation. In particular monthly prices increased in…
Ukrainian farmers in Ternopil region gathered a record amount of grain crops in 2019, the head of the regional department of agribusiness, Volodymyr Stakhiv reported. “Farmers in Ternopil region collected a record amount of grain in recent years. In 2019 they threshed about 2.7 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, up by 148.2 thousand…
The minimum wage in Ukraine has increased by UAH 550 from January 1, to UAH 4,723, according to the country’s state budget for 2020. The living wage per person per month was set at UAH 2,027 from January 1, at UAH 2,118 from July 1 and at UAH 2,189 from December 1. The living wage…
62.1% of businesses consider the quality of local and international transport and the state of roads in Latvia poor or very poor, according to Turiba University’s Business Index. 34.4% of businesses are positive or more or less positive. Generally, however, 19.6% of businesses gave this factor a negative outlook. Analyzing regional data, it was concluded…
Turkish construction workers building a stadium in Lithuania’s second-biggest city Kaunas have started a hunger strike over unpaid wages. The May 1 Trade Union (G1PS) said that 53 workers were on a hunger strike outside the Kaunas municipality building and intended to continue their protest until they were paid all their arrears. The Turkish company…