In January-August the Freeport of Riga handled 22,716,500 tons of cargo, down by 4.8% YoY. According to the port authority, coal transshipment climbed by 5.2%, to 8,373,800 tons, oil products dropped by 34.4%, to 3,882,300 tons, wood pellets increased by 15%, to 444,900 tons, and ore by 35.7%, to 365,200 tons. The port’s container throughput…
In January-May the volume of Ukrainian exports to the Islamic Republic of Iran increased by 78% YoY, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine, Gennadiy Chyzhykov stated, during the Ukrainian-Iranian business forum. “In 2016, comparing with 2015, exports from Ukraine to Iran increased by 32%, while imports from Iran – by 30%.…
Cooperation with India in pharmaceutics will help lower the prices for some medicines on the Belarusian market, Belarus Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko reported. “We need to search for options to lower drug prices. There is an absurd situation: some medicines in Belarus are several times more expensive that their foreign analogues. We should understand…
International reserves of Kyrgyzstan rose by almost $30 million in August. Such data were presented by the National Bank of the country. According to the results of August, gross international reserves amounted to $2.91.65 billion. This is the highest figure since October 2015. The National Bank spends international reserves on smoothing sharp fluctuations of the…
The public joint-stock company Agrarian Fund starts negotiations on construction of a mill with Turkey’s Alapala Makina, the industrial division of Alapala Group. “We have received a proposal on supply of milling equipment from the Turkish manufacturer – Alapala Group, one of the two largest global companies in milling industry. Turkey’s Eximbank will finance the…
In January-August the volume of beer production in Ukraine amounted to 129.1 million dal, or 98% against the same period in 2016, according to a report published by Ukrainian beverage company Ukrpyvo. “An expert estimate of the beer production volume in Ukraine (apart from non-alcoholic beer with an alcohol content of less than 0.5%) for…
Fuel and energy complex of Turkmenistan has completed preparations to ensure the smooth provision of natural gas to consumers in the autumn-winter season, Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Maksat Babayev said at a government meeting. In total, 930,210 households as well as 5,424 industrial and social enterprises are supplied with natural gas on a…