Members of the Latvian Association of Agricultural Cooperatives – a total of 18 cooperatives – agreed on improving positions of farmers in the Baltic region. “The goal behind cooperation is ensuring a comprehensive dialogue with milk-processing companies regarding the procurement price under conditions when the global market reduces dairy product prices. We remind that the…
AS Tallink Grupp has published its statistics for December 2017 and the fourth quarter of the 2017 financial year. In December 2017 AS Tallink Grupp transported 815255 passengers, up by 6.2% YoY. The number of cargo units increased by 10%, to 28 315 units and the number of passenger vehicles increased by 0.6%, to 87672…
The tinned food company Gorynsky Agro, which is located in Stolin district, Brest region, has shipped the first batch of its products to the European Union market, the company’s Director Vasily Kovalets declared. Branded with the Goryn trademark, the products were shipped to retail in Baltic States and Germany. A total of 12 titles of…
In his new State-of-the-Nation Address Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev revealed what the future held for national transport and logistics infrastructure. President Nazarbayev is convinced that Kazakhstan needs to introduce digital technologies in a big way. For instance, in the address entitled “New Opportunities for Development Amidst the Fourth Industrial Revolution” President Nazarbayev suggests using…
The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in 2017 accelerated to 13.7% compared with 12.4% in 2016, which, however, is significantly lower than in the past years: it was 43.3% in 2015 and 24.9% in 2014, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In December 2017 alone inflation was 1% against 0.9% in November and…
The cheapest bread in Ukraine in 2017 grew in price by UAH 2.4, or by 22%. In 2018 social bread prices are expected to continue rising, according to Director of the Ukrainian Association of Trade Networks Suppliers Oleksiy Doroshenko. “In 2017 the price of social black and white bread grew by UAH 2.4. Henceforth, the…
In 2017 the Freeport of Riga handled 33,674,700 tons of cargo, down by 9% YoY. According to the port authority, coal transshipment fell by 11.4%, to 11.776 million tons, transshipment of oil products totaled 5.64 million tons (-30.3%), wood pellets – 646,000 tons (+16.5%) and ore – 514,000 tons (+26.5%). The port’s container throughput grew…