Ukraine has not suspended international freight transportation operations, according to Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Kryklii. “The movement of cargo transportation continue to operate. Ports, freight transportation by air and see, international transportation operate. We have not suspended the movement of goods,” Kryklii emphasized. The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)…
The National Bank of Ukraine sees no grounds for default on Ukraine’s obligations, says Yakiv Smolii, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. “We see no grounds for such developments and don’t consider today the option of default for Ukraine,” Smolii told reporters in Kyiv. (UNIAN/Business World Magazine)
In 2019 the share of households who paid for usual necessary expenses with difficulty or great difficulty constituted 28.6%, down by 7.1% YoY. The share of households making ends meet with some difficulty or fairly easily increased between 2018 (56.8%) and 2019 (62.4%), as had the proportion of households making ends meet easily or very…
In connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak in Estonia, online stores are seeing a significant increase in orders. Barbora, the online store owned by retailer Maxima Group, is also now offering contactless home delivery to its customers in order to combat the spread of the virus. If a customer has chosen contactless delivery at online…
On March 11, H.E. Mr. Berik Aryn, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia, met with H.E. Dr. Khaled bin Sulaiman Alkhudairy, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD). During the meeting, the parties discussed issues related to the participation of the SFD in the implementation of significant development and infrastructure…
In January-February, gas imports into Ukraine totaled 1.438 million cubic meters, up by 57% YoY. “In February, 981 million cubic meters of natural gas was imported into Ukraine, up by 47%,” the press service of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine reports. As of March 11, gas was imported exclusively from the European Union…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) responded to high demand for foreign currency and sold about $350 million in the interbank foreign exchange market on March 11, the central bank’s press service reported on Facebook. “As before, we believe that the deterioration of sentiment in the financial markets is caused more by a psychological factor,…