Passenger flow at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) decreased by 6.9% in 2019 compared to the previous year, the press service of the airport wrote on its Facebook page on January 13. The total number of passengers serviced by the airport last year made up 2.618 million, including 2.559 million passengers on international flights.…
The maximum permissible number of foreign workforce allowed for attraction by Kazakhstan in 2020 is 29,292 or 0.32% against the total number of workforce. As the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection informed, the quota was cut by 40% compared to 2019 (48,700). Aktobe, West Kazakhstan, Kyzylorda and North Kazakhstan regions fully abandoned the attraction…
In 2019 the Freeport of Riga handled 32,762,200 tons of cargo, down by 10.1% YoY. Transshipment of coal fell by 27.2%, to 10,357,700 tons, and oil products – by 7.2%, to 3,791,300 tons, while wood pellets grew by 20.4%, to 1,133,400 tons, and ore – by 29.9%, to 646,200 tons. The port’s container throughput declined…
In 2019 the gross international reserves of Kyrgyzstan grew by $55.54 million, the National Bank reported. Based on the results of 2019, the gross international reserves of Kyrgyzstan reached $2,424.11 billion. This is the highest figure since 2002, when the National Bank first began to publish data on the level of the reserves. Over the…
Ukraine plans to export 54 million tons of grain in the current marketing year, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine has reported. “According to the ministry’s estimates, this year’s grain harvest amounted to about 75 million tons, 54 million tons of which will be exported to foreign…
In 2019-2020 MY Ukraine produced 1.48 million tons of sugar, down by 19% YoY. “In total, there were 33 sugar refineries in operation, which processed 9.84 million tons of sugar beet – almost a third less than in the previous year. As we can see, a significant reduction in the amount of raw materials caused…
A bill put forward to the Georgian parliament proposes to identify dangerous parts on Georgian highways with black dots. Up to 300 meters of roads will be identified as dangerous if at least four accidents have been registered in the area in the last three years resulting in fatalities and/or up to ten people being…