Ukraine in January-November increased electricity exports by 34.4% YoY, or by 1.204 billion kWh, to 4.708 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has reported. Energy supplies from the Burshtyn thermal power plant’s energy island towards Hungary, Slovakia and Romania increased by 6.9% (by 183.9 million kWh), to 2.849 billion kWh. Electricity deliveries…
Another eleven Belarusian companies will be supplying dairy products to China, Aleksei Bogdanov, head of the main department for foreign economic affairs at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, declared. “Following a recent visit of Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats to China, another eleven dairy companies were granted access to the Chinese market,…
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has instructed to develop chemical industry and increase the domestic production of fertilizers, the press service of the president reported. The decisions were made at a meeting held to discuss current financial and economic situation of chemical industry enterprises and development of the industry. Uzbekistan adopted a program for development…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash is considering the possibility of selling electric buses to Tehran. This possibility and other matters of cooperation were discussed as Minsk Mayor Andrei Shorets met with Ambassador of Iran Mostafa Oveisi in Minsk, the press service of the Minsk City Executive Committee reported. Minsk and Tehran are sister cities.…
Ukraine is ready to resume purchases of natural gas from Russia if it is cheap and if the signing of respective contracts is transparent, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “What has happened in the past two years? We are energy independent. They (Russia) are knocking: can you take our gas? No, everything is fine…
Coal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) increased by 0.7% on December 20-27, to 1.773 million tons, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service. At the same time, anthracite reserves grew by 6%, from 706,000 tons to 664,900 tons, it said. Meanwhile, gas grade coal stocks shrank by 2.6%, from…
In the next three years Latvia’s economy will grow by more than 3% every year, predicts Latvian Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola. “In 2018, the state budget will focus on improving healthcare. The Saeima has approved of a law that puts healthcare at the top of budget priorities. Other important fields include the country’s internal and…