About EUR 3.7 billion was invested in renewable energy capacities in Ukraine in 2019, according to the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine. “In 2019 about EUR 3.7 billion was invested in record high 4,500 MW of renewable energy capacities in Ukraine,” reads the statement. According to the data provided by…
In 2020 Kharkiv International Airport will open new flights to Budapest, Burgas and Heraklion, the airport’s marketing manager Alina Pecherytsia reported. “From January 16 the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will launch flights to Budapest twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday. The cost of a one-way ticket without luggage begins from UAH 452. From June…
Compared to November 2018, industrial production output fell by 0.2% in November 2019. That was affected by output drop in manufacturing by 0.8% and in mining and quarrying by 16.9%, while in electricity and gas supply there was an increase of 3.9%. Output drop was registered in more than a half of manufacturing sectors, with…
Listed Estonian shipper Tallink Grupp carried a record 9,763,210 passengers on all of its vessels and routes combined in 2019, up by 0.1% YoY. The biggest increase in the number of passengers was on Tallink’s Finland-Sweden routes, where the company transported 1.7% more passengers in 2019 than in 2018. In total, the company transported 2,894,494…
In December 2019 prices in Georgia increased by 0.4%, while the annual inflation rate amounted to 7%, showed the latest inflation data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages in Georgia increased by 1.4% MoM, contributing 0.44% of the overall monthly inflation. In particular monthly prices increased in…
Ukrainian farmers in Ternopil region gathered a record amount of grain crops in 2019, the head of the regional department of agribusiness, Volodymyr Stakhiv reported. “Farmers in Ternopil region collected a record amount of grain in recent years. In 2019 they threshed about 2.7 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, up by 148.2 thousand…
The minimum wage in Ukraine has increased by UAH 550 from January 1, to UAH 4,723, according to the country’s state budget for 2020. The living wage per person per month was set at UAH 2,027 from January 1, at UAH 2,118 from July 1 and at UAH 2,189 from December 1. The living wage…