The Belarusian automobile engineering company OAO BelAZ has opened a modern technical support center in Russia’s Ural Federal District, the press service of the Belarusian Industry Ministry reported. The center for repairing and maintaining BelAZ mining vehicles was opened in the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region. The center had been built by BelTransLogistik Company, an…
Since June Uzbekistan has begun exporting fresh fruit to India. Uzbekistan will export sweet cherries and apricots to the markets of Delhi for the first time. Uzbekistan also plans to start exporting other types of fresh and dried fruit and vegetables to India in 2018. By July 8, Uzbekistan has exported sweet cherry worth over…
Finnair air carrier resumes its flights to Astana. The flights will be operated from July till September twice a week on Wednesday and Fridays by comfortable Airbus 319. The flight duration is four hours, the press service of the Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport JSC said. Last summer Finnair transported more than 3,000 passengers. (Kazinform/Business World…
Ukraine exported 67,600 tons of sugar in June of the current marketing year (2017-2018 MY, September through August), up by 25% MoM, the National Association of Sugar Producers, Ukrtsukor, has reported. “Large batches of sugar in June were shipped to Uzbekistan (51%) and Libya (35%), while smaller batches were exported to Azerbaijan (5%), Armenia and…
The positive dynamics of Ukraine’s GDP growth will remain at 3.2% by the end of 2018, and it may also increase by about 3% in 2019, First Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv stated when presenting the government’s report for the first half of 2018 at a meeting of…
Warmer-than-usual weather was observed in the country on July 2-8. The average weekly air temperature was 0.5-1.5 degrees C above normal, at +20-22 C. Precipitation occurred late in the week, being unevenly distributed over the country. Its rates totaled mostly 1-10 mm (5-55% of weekly normal), even 17-38 mm (100-250% of weekly normal) in some…
The catamaran ferry Runo, which serves a regular connection to the remote Estonian island of Ruhnu in the Gulf of Riga, is expected to resume operation on July 13 after its main engine is replaced. “Thus far, everything has gone as planned,” Andres Laasma, board member of ferry operator Kihnu Veeteede AS, said. “The ship’s…