Ukraine’s seaports handled 4.22 MMT of vegoils in January-November, up by 16.9% YoY (3.61 MMT). The greatest handling volumes were accounted for by the following ports: Mykolaiv (1.78 MMT), Chornomorsk (1.19 MMT), Yuzhny (0.94 MMT), Odessa (0.11 MMT) and Mariupol (0.07 MMT). Ukraine’s ports handled 34.986 MMT of grains in January-November, up by 6.3% YoY…
Top managers of the public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant have asked the Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to set the beneficial price for the plant or include it in the production chain of a gas producer, First Deputy Board Chairman Mykola Schurikov has said. “We have sent an official letter to Groysman. We have suggested…
Kazakh wheat bran exports exceeded 180 KMT in 2015/2016: they totaled 181.6 KMT, or up by 31.6% YoY. In the beginning of the new season 2016/2017, Kazakh exporters continued stepping up wheat bran deliveries to foreign markets. So, Kazakhstan exported as much as 43.4 KMT of wheat bran in the first two months of the…
Low marginality of flour production does not allow Ukrainian companies-processors to realize significant investments in reconstruction of their enterprises, and denies the opportunity to improve qualitative characteristics of the final product, and reduce its production costs, the co-owner of the group of companies Ukr-Agro-Product LLC, Khlebodar and GFS Group Boris Shestopalov declared. According to him,…
Although Ukraine has confirmed its readiness to buy 1.5-4 billion cubic meters of Russian gas this winter and Moscow said it was ready to ensure exports to Ukraine and the E.U., no final deal was reached during the talks, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported. “The Ukrainian side has expressed its readiness to buy 1.5-4…
Foreign direct investment in Georgia increased by 5% YoY in the first nine months of 2016 to $1.29 billion, according to preliminary data released by the State Statistics Office. FDI in the third quarter stood at $463 million, down by 4% YoY and up by 3.8% QoQ. After increasing by about 33% YoY in the…
In July-November Ukraine significantly increased the exports of peas to Pakistan, which reached 39.9 thousand tons, up by 75% YoY (22.8 thousand tons), and by 8% compared with the whole 2015/2016 MY (36.8 thousand tons). The current trends in peas production in Ukraine allowed increasing the exports, not only to Pakistan, but also on the…