Kazakhstan: cargo transport via Turkmenistan up in 2018

In 2018, more than 400 trains were sent from Kazakhstan’s “Bolashak” border railway station to neighboring Turkmenistan, twice as much as in 2017, the press service of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Kazakhstan Railways) reported. Kazakhstan transports wheat, flour, milling products, barley, oats, and lentils. All products are exported to Turkmenistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Cargo traffic passes…

Ukraine: GDP up in 2018

Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said that the country’s gross domestic product grew by 3.4% YoY in 2018. “Statistics, which will be announced in February, will show stabilization, and growth of the Ukrainian economy by 3.4%,” he said at a meeting of the Ukrainian parliament’s faction…