While Estonia’s modern eastern border with Russia was initially planned to be completed by 2018 or 2019 at the latest, currently even test sections of the border have not yet been finished. Last November, then-Minister of the Interior Hanno Pevkur (Reform) said that the Estonian government had set the ambitious goal of building the new…
In January-September seaports of Ukraine handled 98 million tons of cargo, up by 1.3% YoY, says press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Transshipment of export cargo totaled 74.4 million tons (+2.3%), including 29 million tons of grain (+11.2%), 15.5 million tons of ore (-10.4%), 10.1 million tons of mining and metal products (-19.1%) and…
According to preliminary statistics figures, during the first 3 months of 2017-2018 MY (July-September) Ukraine exported 117.5 thousand tons of wheat flour, up by 24% YoY. In particular, in September the exports totaled 44.9 thousand tons, which broke a monthly record for the product shipments from the country in 10 recent years. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Due to increased demand, TS Laevad, the Port of Tallinn subsidiary which operates ferry routes connecting Saaremaa and Hiiumaa to the Estonian mainland, will operate its Virtsu-Kuivastu route with three large ferries on October 15, bringing in the Tiiu to increase capacity on the route that day. On October 15, the Tiiu will serve the…
The total volume of state aid handed out in Estonia in 2016 fell by 8%, to EUR 199.6 million, with the share of the total volume of state aid in GDP decreasing by 0.12%, to 0.95%. A total of EUR 150.9 million in the form of support, or 75.6% of the total volume of state…
Tajikistan called upon the participants of CASA-1000 to speed up the project’s practical implementation. The United Arab Emirates hosted a meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the CASA-1000 project with the participation of the energy ministers of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. The representatives of the World Bank, the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction,…
The President Almazbek Atambayev took the issue of building schools in Bishkek under his personal control. He stated this at a meeting with the activists and the public of the capital, the Information Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. According to it, Almazbek Atambayev noted that the time when the…