Natural gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 35.7%, or by 6.14 billion cubic meters, to 11.053 billion cubic meters since November 7, 2018 when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its reserves amid the heating season. As of February 2, gas reserves in the country’s USFs were 10.6% down from…
In 2018 Ukraine exported 328.97 thousand tons of poultry meat, up by 21.24% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFSU), in monetary terms poultry meat exports totaled $506.61 million. The key importers of Ukrainian poultry meat in the reporting period were the Netherlands – $112.46 million; Slovakia – $59.95 million; and Saudi…
A small amount of meat from sick livestock from Poland has been found in a Lido restaurant, as confirmed by Chief of Latvian Food and Veterinary Service’s Public Relations Office Ilze Meistere. She reports that Lido has received a total of 27 kg of meat, and 9 kg of aforementioned meat remains stored in the…
Bishkek-Tashkent bus route via the previously existing route was resumed before the approval of a new timetable from February 1, the Ministry of Transport and Roads reported. The Ministry of Transport of Kyrgyzstan has negotiated the issue on the transit through the territory of Kazakhstan of Bishkek-Tashkent bus with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development…
The Board of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will consider the change in the discount rate and interest rate corridor. Presently, the discount rate is 9.75%. Earlier, the change was considered in December 2018. Then the CBA decided to keep the discount rate unchanged. The CBA justified its decision by uncertainty in foreign markets.…
The State Road Service of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) intends to create an office of intelligent transport systems and build a weigh-in-motion system for trucks, Head of Ukravtodor Slawomir Nowak stated. “We are implementing new technologies of safety and safe operation of roads. An important task for this year is to create an office of ITS (intelligent…
Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) Yuriy Terentyev says the committee does not consider Ukraine’s largest private energy holding DTEK – controlled by businessman Rinat Akhmetov – to be a monopolist on the electricity market. “The mere fact of having a significant market share is not enough. The electricity market is now regulated,…