The Uzbek flag carrier will soon connect the capital cities of Uzbekistan and Georgia with new seasonal flights. Uzbekistan Airways will start operating flights on the route Tashkent-Tbilisi from July 16. During the summer season flights will be performed twice a week on Tuesdays and Sundays by an Airbus 320 type aircraft. Uzbekistan Airways was…
Tyulkubass district of Turkestan region has harvested 600 tons of walnuts, the local administration’s press service reports. The said district is considered a home to the best tasting apples and walnuts. In 2018 the district planted walnut trees on the territory stretching over 257 ha. This year it plans to bed out walnut trees on…
Cheese exports from Ukraine in January-March totaled 1,600 tons, down by 14% YoY. The shipments of Ukrainian cheese abroad in monetary terms over the period under review shrank by 19%, to $5,800 million, according to customs statistics reports posted by Ukraine’s State Fiscal Service (SFS) on its website. Cheese imports in Q1 increased by 43%,…
Bank deposits in the national currency in Ukraine in March fell by 1%, to UAH 539.4 billion ($20.2 billion), while deposits in foreign currency shrank by 0.7%, to $13.4 billion in the U.S. dollar equivalent. From year-start, bank deposits in hryvnias have decreased by 0.1%, while those in foreign currency grew by 0.2%, according to…
Lithuania is ready to receive more cargoes from Belarus. The statement was made by Lithuanian Communications and Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis as he encouraged the Klaipeda port and Lithuanian Railways to do their best competing for contracts with Belarus. In a Facebook post Rokas Masiulis wrote that the amount of Belarusian freight handled by Lithuanian…
In 2019, real GDP growth is expected to be around 3.7% in Kyrgyzstan, report of the National Bank says. Excluding the enterprises developing Kumtor mine, the growth will be about 3.8%. Production at Kumtor in 2019 is expected to be equal to the production level of 2018. In 2020, real GDP growth is forecast at…
The poultry plant “Hajiqabul Qushchuluq” located in the Hajiqabul district will start exporting eggs to Qatar next week, head of the plant’s export department Akif Aliyev declared. He said that 36,000 eggs would be exported in 1,000 packages. “In the future, we plan to increase these volumes, and the negotiations are underway regarding this,” he…