Shipper Viking Line closed its high-speed ferry connection to Helsinki ahead of schedule. One of the engines of Viking FSTR, a catamaran ferry originally expected to operate on the Tallinn-Helsinki route until October 22, was damaged and forced the company to cancel its crossings on four days already last week. Viking Line announced on October…
Azerbaijan Banks Association (ABA) positively assesses the consolidation in the country’s banking sector, ABA head Zakir Nuriyev said. “Such discussions have always been held in the banking sector, but they have intensified lately,” he said, adding that ABA supported such negotiations. Nuriyev noted the necessity to encourage such negotiations so that they were held at…
Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom has recently showcased its locally built variant of the AR-15 assault rifle – M4-WAC-47. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) intends to induct the M4-WAC-47 as part of its technical and operational alignment with NATO. The M4-WAC-47 was developed in collaboration with U.S.-based Aeroscraft. Besides 5.56×45 mm NATO rounds, the M4-WAC-47 can…
In the first eight months of 2017, a total of 102.259 million liters of alcoholic drinks were exported from Latvia, up by 54.14% YoY. 89.2% of this volume was exported mostly to Russia. 10.8% was exported to European Union member states, according to excise tax circulation indexes compiled by Latvian State Revenue Service. Exports of…
Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) produced 209.57 million kWh of electricity on October 16, the press-service of Ukraine’s State Enterprise “National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom” reports. On October 17, 11 out of 15 power units were functioning at Ukrainian power plants: it was the 59th day of the average planned repair at power unit…
The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion (30%) in the nine months of 2017, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman posted on Facebook. “The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion, and the revenues of budgets of the united territorial communities grew by 82.7% and totaled UAH 6.3 billion in the nine months…
Belarus has a serious chance of becoming a supplier of electric buses to Moscow, Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Moscow City Foreign Economic and International Relations Department Sergei Cheremin said. “Belarusian companies have supplied transport to Moscow before. We use Belarusian trolleybuses. Belarusian producers have a serious chance of participating in…