Astarta is reporting on completion of sale of its two sugar plants in Kharkiv region – Savynskiy and Novoivanivskiy. As previously communicated, the company’s management was focusing on improving the profitability of the sugar segment and optimizing the corresponding asset base by concentrating production on its core sugar mills in 2020. Since Kharkiv region does…
In December 2020, the foreign trade turnover of Latvia amounted to EUR 2.56 billion, which at current prices was 5.8% larger than a year ago, of which the exports value of goods was 12.5% higher, but imports value of goods – 0.9% higher. In December 2020, Latvia exported goods in the amount of EUR 1.15…
Foreign tourists spent EUR 1 billion euros less in Estonia last year than they did in 2019 after the collapse of the tourism industry caused by COVID-19, data from the Bank of Estonia showed. In 2020, foreign tourists spent EUR 410 million in Estonia, down by EUR 1 billion euros YoY. Only a third of…
The Sokh district of the Ferghana region has begun the construction of an airfield, the press service of the Ferghana International Airport reports. The airfield will be located on 4.5 hectares of land with a runway length of 650 meters and a width of 100 meters. Some 12 billion UZS will be allocated to build…
The government has paid UAH 15.8 billion worth of unemployment benefits to Ukrainians since the beginning of the coronavirus quarantine, Economy, Trade and Agriculture Development Minister Ihor Petrashko said during the All-Ukrainian Forum “Ukraine 30. Coronavirus: Challenges and Responses” in Kyiv on February 9. “A total amount of unemployment benefits has reached UAH 15.8 billion.…