The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications says it plans to buy four of five ferries, which currently service Estonia’s two largest islands, Hiiumaa, and, via Muhu, Saaremaa. The move would not quite represent a full nationalization in that the company that operates the vessels, TS Laevad, is a subsidiary of the Port of Tallinn…
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have agreed to expand the bilateral trade turnover to $1 billion in the near future. Uzbekistan’s Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov during negotiations with Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov on August 4 agreed to abolish existing tariff and non-tariff barriers and simplify the…
Potatoes remained a top export in the “fresh fruit and vegetables” category of food exports of Georgia, in June, the Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat) reported. Revenues from selling potatoes abroad amounted to $3.7 million, up by 20% from the blueberry export revenues (ranked second in June). The top exporting destination for Georgian potatoes was…
Last year, the volume of mutual trade in goods and services between Canada and Ukraine decreased by 9%, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko said. “In bare numbers, last year looked sad, since the volume of interstate trade decreased by 9%. Meanwhile, this is comparable to both the overall downturn of the economies of both…
Cherkasy Azot (a part of Group DF) has completed the repairs in the ammonia A-5 workshop. The unit has already reached its designed capacity. “We have completed the overhaul of the A-5 workshop for the production of ammonia, which lasted for a month. The main task was to restore the resource of technological equipment, increase…
The US Department of State has approved the sale of the country’s anti-tank Javelin missiles and command launch units to Georgia. Now it is up to the Congress to confirm the sale of 82 missiles and 46 command launch units to Georgia for $30 million. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has already notified Congress…
As of the end of July, Tajikistan harvested almost 700 thousand tons of grain crops, the Ministry of Agriculture reported. Farmers harvested grains throughout 230.8 thousand ha as of the reporting date. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)