In January-December 2016 Ukrainian seaport of Illichivsk handled 15,942,000 tons of cargo (down by 7.9% YoY), says the port authority. Private port operators handled 9.363 million tons of cargo (58.7% of total turnover) including 6.127 million tons of cargo handled at the terminals of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (38.4% of total volume). Transshipment of export…
French-based Engie (formerly GDF Suez SA) from January 1, started natural gas imports to Ukraine, supplying 3.9 million cubic meters to the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) in the first days of the month, the public relations department of PJSC Ukrtransgaz has said. “According to the report of Engie, the daily volume of gas supplies…
The mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could in the coming weeks recommend the executive board to hold the third revision of the EFF program, IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice has reported. “I don’t have the exact date of the meeting, but we expect it to be soon, in the coming weeks. And let me…
Gas stock in Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities (UGS), according to Naftogaz Ukrainy’s estimates, as of the beginning of March will amount to about 8 billion cubic meters, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers has said. According to its report, Naftogaz provided relevant data at a meeting on the issue of providing the…
The commercial effect from the projects to be implemented in the R&D park Belbiograd is supposed to reach $500 million by 2023, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Sergei Kilin reported. The official said that 26 projects had been fleshed out so far. By 2023 the projects…
On January 18-22, Spain will host the 37th International Tourism Fair FITUR-2017. This is the first and major tourism event of 2017. Last year some 9,500 organizations, firms and associations of the tourism industry from 165 countries attended the fair. 125 thousand specialists and 97 thousand visitors took part in it. This year the national…
Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) stopped its flights on the Baku-Ganja route on January 9, the company’s press reported. The press service said it was economically inefficient to carry out these flights. The Baku-Ganja flights were carried out daily using Embraer aircraft. Ticket prices started from 30 manats. (Trend/Business World Magazine)