Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved of new increased minimum alcohol prices, in particular, the floor price of a half-liter bottle of vodka was increased from 54.90 to 69.78 UAH. “The revision was required as prices set since September 2015 have not met real expenses of producers”, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade…
Ukraine in January-October 2016 imported coal and anthracite valued at $1.17 billion, in particular $129.084 million in October. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $742.938 million worth of coal, the United States – $168.547 million, Australia – $73.348 million, other countries – $184.879 million. The total volume of coal delivered to the country…
Ukraine in January-October exported electricity valued at $123.288 million, in particular $9.003 million in October. According to the State Fiscal Service, electricity delivered to Hungary amounted to $93.734 million, to Poland to $29.199 million, Moldova to $347,000, other countries to $7,000. In addition, in January-October Ukraine imported $3.006 million worth of power from Russia, and…
Turkmenistan’s investment policy is aimed at drawing foreign capital, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in a message addressed to the participants of the eighth International Investment Forum. According to the message, the main task of the investment forum is to diversify and increase the competitiveness of local economy and introduce innovative technologies in the industry.…
The volume of trade turnover between Moldova and Romania over 8 months of 2016 amounted to $873.06 million of which the Moldovan export equaled $344.92 million, and the Romanian import – to $528.14 million. In Romania’s trade with the countries outside the European Union, Moldova ranks the 4th place in export terms (purchase of Romanian…
In January-October the port of Ventspils handled 15.5 million tons of cargo (-19.7%, YoY), the port authority says. In October the port handled 1.4 million tons of cargo. Transshipment via Ventspils Nafta terminals totaled 6.6 million tons (-21%), via Baltic Coal Terminal dropped by 50% to 767,000 tons, via Ventspils tirdzniecibas osta – by 32%…
In January-October the Freeport of Riga handled 30,410,900 tons of cargo (-8.8%, YoY). According to the port authority, coal transshipment fell by 12.2% to 10,611,100 tons, oil products – by 20.7% to 7,051,400 tons, wood pellets – by 11.4% to 438,800 tons, ore went up 1.7 times to 337,600 tons. The port’s container throughput climbed…