Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection Oleksiy Orzhel says the ministry plans to increase the share of energy generated from alternative sources up to 70% over the next 30 years. “We say that the share of renewable energy should be about 70% by 2050. We have estimates, various charts, and scenarios for the implementation…
Kazakh Grain Union forecasts export of soft wheat to decline by 21%, to 4.8 million tons in 2019-2020 MY. Over the last years, planted areas under wheat have been declining, while the average yield has been staying rather stable. However, the yield declined to 0.9 ton/ha in 2019. “According to Kazakh Grain Union estimation, soft…
Lithuania is buying new special-purpose Arocs trucks for its Armed Forces for around 10 million euros, the Defense Ministry has said. A contract on the purchase of the trucks was signed on January 20 by the Lithuanian Defense Materiel Agency and Silberauto, the representative of the German carmaker Daimler in Lithuania. Four carmakers bid for…
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Israel, Satybaldy Burshakov, has met with Director General of the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority Joel Feldshukh and representatives of Israeli airlines, the press service of the Kazakh MFA informs. The diplomat informed aviation experts about the “open skies” regime at airports in 11 cities of Kazakhstan since November 1, 2019, which…
A senior Iraqi lawmaker announced that the country’s government was exploring buying Russian, Chinese or Ukrainian air defense systems, possibly in exchange for Iraqi oil shipments. The initiative comes following the U.S. lethal airstrike in Baghdad early this month against Iranian Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Badr al-Ziyadi, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security…
Ukraine exported about 7.7 thousand tons of oats in July-December 2019-2020 MY, up 1.5-fold YoY (5.2 thousand tons). Top-5 importers of Ukrainian oats included India with the share of 77%, Libya – 5%, Hungary – 4%, Switzerland – 3% and Germany – 2%. Victoria Rozhko, analyst of APK-Inform, informed that India had been the main…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia on January 20, the average construction price index in 2019 increased by 1.9% YoY. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the construction price index increased by 0.5% QoQ and by 1.7% YoY. In 2019, compared to the 2018 average, the cost of labor increased by 4.3%, the use…