Exports from Georgia to the EU increased by 13% YoY in 2019, and reached $825.7 million, while imports decreased by 7.4%, to $2.32 billion, showed preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia. Georgia’s top trading partners were Turkey ($1.82 billion), Russia ($1.47 billion) and China ($1.09 billion) in 2019. In 2019 the share…
The price of gas supplied from Russia to Armenia at the border will not increase in 2020. There is an agreement according to which there will be no change in tariff for consumers until April 1, and Gazprom Armenia CJSC will not submit an application to the Public Services Regulatory Commission, Deputy Prime Minister of…
Natural gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 18.7%, to 17.69 billion cubic meters since November 2, 2019 when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its reserves amid the heating season. As of January 18, gas reserves in the country’s USFs stood at 17.69 billion cubic meters, up by 30.3% YoY,…
CEO of Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Tetiana Romanovska says the airport is expanding its flight geography, planning to launch new flights to Italy in 2020. Also, talks are underway with two Chinese air carriers to open operations to China. “We will be expanding our flight geography. We want to launch flights to Lisbon, Norway…
Georgian wine was listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest. The oldest wine was made in Georgia 8,000 years ago. This fact is confirmed by the remains of grapes in earthenware discovered during archaeological excavations. The earthenware found in Georgia is the oldest wine glassware to date. Earlier, the most ancient archaeological evidence of…
The Public Procurement Review Committee (VAKO) has overruled a complaint from Lithuanian air carrier Transaviabaltika, finding that a clause setting a ceiling on airplane age in the new round of procurement on the Tallinn-Kuressaare flight route, which links Estonia’s largest island with the mainland, to be a legitimate demand, which does not distort competition. The…
2,800 apartments will be commissioned this year in the North Kazakhstan region. At a meeting of the local administration, Chief of the Construction, Architecture and Urban Planning Department Serik Mukhamediyev said that 420 rental apartments would be built for socially vulnerable groups of population. “We plan to continue the construction of affordable credit housing. 1,122…