While sunseed processing and sunoil output in Ukraine show a record fast pace, hitting new highs every month, soybean crushing and soyoil production by oil extractors keep lagging behind last year. Large and medium-sized crushers in Ukraine produced 14.5 KMT of soyoil in November against 15.7 KMT in November 2015. 34.3 KMT of soyoil was…
Nibulon, one of Ukraine’s largest grain production and trading companies, will receive a 71 million euros loan to help improve its infrastructure as part of a 600 million euros loan package announced by the European Investment Bank (EIB) on December 19. The financing will foster a multi-scheme investment at Nibulon focused on creating a more…
Cabinet approves of the concession of the right to prospect oil and gas deposits in the south of Moldova to Frontera Resources International, the USA. The Cabinet took this decision at the request of the Ministry of Environment of Moldova taking into account that the company had won the international tender for geological prospecting of…
Lenders in Estonia are continuing to build a common positive credit rating register to enable banks and creditors assess the ability of upcoming clients to repay their debts. “Things are currently in the programming phase”, Alar Jager, development director at AS Creditinfo explained. “This is a project with an open deadline, so to speak, because…
Over the first nine months of 2016 purchase prices have slightly recovered with farmers being able to sell milk 2.5% higher and pork – 9% higher, the Estonian Rural Affairs Ministry found in a survey. The ministry’s Deputy Secretary General for Agricultural and Rural Life Policies Marko Goran evaluates: “The low ebb of the milk…
Overnight into December 21, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) passed the state budget for 2017. Fiscal revenues for 2017 are envisaged at 721.4 billion UAH and expenditures at 790.4 billion UAH. The budget deficit was set at 77.5 billion UAH. The following macroeconomic indicators are proposed for 2017: GDP growth at 3-4%; inflation at 8.1%; forecast…
Freeport of Riga Authority says 33.3 million tons of cargo was handled at Riga port during 11 months of the current year, down by 8.6% YoY, while total cargo turnover decrease compared to last year continues to decline. November has been successful for the port of Riga in coal segment – 1.1 million tons of…