Ukraine: free trade agreement signed with Israel

Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv and Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen have signed a free trade agreement between the two countries. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who was on a visit to Israel on January…

Latvia: improvements expected from LDz

“Last year was a turning point for railway freight. The industry managed to recover from the decline, the lowest point of which was in 2017. It is too soon to celebrate last year’s grown, because this industry remains dependent on external risks and flaws caused by internal factors of the transit corridor,” says Baltic Association…

Ukraine: electricity exports up in 2018

Ukraine boosted electricity exports by 19.36% in 2018 from 2017, to 6.166 billion kWh. Over the period under review, Ukraine exported about 3.59 billion kWh of electricity to Hungary, which accounted for 58% of electricity sales abroad, 1.4 billion kWh to Poland (23%), and 960 million kWh to Moldova (16%), according to the website of…