Ukraine has extended for a year and has expanded the sanctions imposed in September 2015 against the Russian enterprises and companies, which are operating in the interests of the Russian security and defense sector. According to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decree dated October 17, which enacted the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council’s decision of…
As of October 18, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 48.73 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 11.741 million ha, or 82% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.15 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported t. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached…
As of October 17, Ukrainian farmers threshed 4738.1 thousand ha of sunflower or 80% of the planned area (5916.2 thousand ha), down by 0.4% YoY (4755 thousand ha). 10375.3 KMT had been obtained with the average productivity of 2.19 MT/ha. In 2015, 10087 KMT had been obtained with the productivity of 2.12 MT/ha. Soybean had…
Ukraine for the first time has included several offshore companies posing threat to the national interest in its sanctions list, namely Judson Trading Limited (Cyprus), Rock Ranch Properties S.A. (Panama), Powerful Choice Tech Ltd (the British Virgin Islands), Global Games Ltd (Belize), Novastar Group Ltd (Belize) and Gordon Solution Ltd (the British Virgin Islands). The…
Investment potential of the new storing capacities with possibility of water transport handling is estimated at $250 million. This is what the director of Hermes-Trading Yuri Skichko believes. According to him, total handling capacities may reach 5-7 MMT by 2019/2020. Additional storing facilities for river logistics can reach 2.8 MMT, including the new ones –…
In January-August the foreign trade deficit in goods in Ukraine totaled $1.465 billion against $548.5 million of the proficit in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, in January-August the exports of commodities from Ukraine totaled $22.719 billion, down by 9% YoY. The import volumes of goods to…
Since October 2015, National energy company Ukrenergo has saved 5.3 billion UAH during procurement, acting director of Ukrenergo Vsevolod Kovalchuk said. “We have saved 5.3 billion UAH on procurement during a year of my work”, he said, adding that over 3 billion UAH was saved at tenders held at the end of September. The top…