The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has become a member of the Basel Consultative Group (BCG), the outreach arm of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS), the NBU has reported on its website. “The BCG aims at attracting supervision officials of the countries which are not committee members to the discussion of new proposals…
The public joint-stock company Agrarian Fund has ordered mineral fertilizers valued at UAH 1 billion from Ostchem Group, which allowed three enterprises of the group to resume operations. According to a press release of Agrarian Fund, the funds to form batches of fertilizers and launching the plants totaled some UAH 1 billion, including UAH 750…
A free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine will be signed by the end of this year, Turkish Deputy Economy Minister Fatih Metin said at a meeting of the International Turkish Ukrainian Businessmen Association (TUID) in Kyiv on July 11. According to Metin, the free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine is being drafted, but…
In January-June the Freeport of Riga handled 17,512,200 tons of cargo, down by 4.1% YoY. Coal transshipment climbed by 7.4%, to 6,398,600 tons, wood pellets by 13.4%, 353,000 tons, oil products dropped by 31.8%, to 3,270,400 tons, ore by 9.2%, to 165,400 tons. The port’s container throughput grew by 14%, to 208,107 TEUs. Passenger turnover…
Ukrainian enterprises in June imported gas at an average price of UAH 5,566 or $213.7 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In January, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the price of gas imports amounted to $229.51 per 1,000 cubic meters (UAH…
According to preliminary estimates, Ukraine exported 43.8 MMT of grains in MY 2016-2017 that closed on June 30. This is an all-time high for the country, the Ag Ministry reports. “Last year’s bumper crop of 66 MMT translated into exportable stocks of 43.8 MMT, an all-time high for Ukraine. The upward trend also manifested itself…
As of July 3, Tajikistan harvested 432.7 thousand tons of grain crops throughout the areas of 303.9 thousand ha, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan declared. According to the announcement, in January-May Tajikistan imported 360 thousand tons of wheat (at the average price of $224 per ton), down by 23.8 thousand tons…