President Dalia Grybauskaite has signed a law on the ratification of the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. Currently around 150 Lithuanian companies export to Canada, with as many as 80% of them being small or medium, according to a statement issued by the presidential office. The EU-Canada trade agreement will eliminate 99%…
Kazakhstan’s National Bank has suspended the license of Qazaq Banki JSC for accepting deposits and opening bank accounts for individuals for a period from April 28 till July 27, the press service of the National Bank of Kazakhstan said in a message. “The validity of the license of Qazaq Banki JSC for accepting deposits of…
Ukraine has announced that it is set to begin delivery of the first trams to Egypt by July, according to a statement by the Ukrainian manufacturer Tatra-Yug. The first batch of trams will be docked in Alexandria in early June, the statement said, adding that the delivery of the trams would be completed by the…
Ukraine’s railways operator, the state-run JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, tripled investment in the first quarter of 2018, to UAH 3.869 billion ($147.5 million). “Capital investment of Ukrzaliznytsia was estimated at UAH 3.869 billion in the first quarter of 2018. The major part of funds, that is UAH 2.43 billion, accounting for almost 63%, was spent on the…
The first quarter sales revenue of the Estonian state-owned energy group Eesti Energia totaled EUR 228.6 million, marking an increase of 6.2% on year, while net profits declined by 16.1%, to EUR 40.5 million. The revenues of most business segments of Eesti Energia grew in the first quarter on the back of higher electricity and…
Compared to March 2017, the total retail trade turnover rose by 6.5% in March 2018. Turnover of retail trade in food products has increased by 6.8%, turnover of retail trade in non-food products by 6%, and turnover of retail sale of automotive fuel by 7.3%. Compared to March of the previous year, the most significant…
One of the peasant enterprises of Kyzylorda region plans to sow Iranian Torem Hoshemi rice variety on 500 ha. Last year it sowed a trial of Iranian rice on 70 hectares and got a good harvest, thus, gaining an opportunity to export its products to Iran. The local experts analyzed the mineral content of the…