North Kazakhstan region plans to build a wind park with 25 wind generators, Arman Urazgulov, chief of the Department for Industrial and Innovative Development, said at a meeting on development of investment projects in the region. He noted that the project would be implemented in the territory of Ayirtau municipality. The total capacity of the…
Vilnius Airport announced on December 23 a public tender for a new passenger departure terminal. The 14,400-square-metre building is set to double the number of passengers the airport is able to handle. The new building will sit adjacent to the old departures terminal, near the VIP terminal and a conference center that are currently being…
Ventas osta, the state company created to perform the functions of Ventspils port, will provide a professional and depoliticized management of the port, says Latvia’s Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins. The prime minister said that after US sanctions, it was decided to implement the plan outlined in the government declaration in regards to entrusting Ventspils port’s…
The gas price for the Ukrainian population and business will not grow this winter due to the agreement on the transit of Russian gas to Europe through the territory of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk wrote on his Facebook page. “The tariff for pumping Russian gas will be set not on bilateral negotiations,…
The State Statistics Service of Ukraine has lowered the estimate of real GDP growth in the third quarter to 4.1% in annual terms from 4.2% announced earlier. The estimate of growth compared with the previous quarter, taking into account the seasonal factor, has deteriorated to 0.6% from 0.7%, according to the report. The agency says…
The areas allocated for cotton cultivation will amount to 105,000 hectares in 2020, Azerbaijan’s Agriculture Minister Inam Karimov said. According to the new subsidization mechanism, that will come into force in 2020, some 220 manats ($129) will be issued to farmers for every hectare of sown cotton, and 100 manats ($58) for each ton of…
Exports of Georgian tangerines amounted to 21,333 tons from the middle of October to December 19, up by 6.2% YoY, announced the Ministry of Agriculture. New export destination countries are Lithuania (120.9 tons), Slovenia (158.2 tons), Qatar (0.4 tons) and Singapore (0.1 tons). The leading export destination countries are Russia – 13,075.3 tons, Ukraine –…