The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft will use a new technology of its own design to rack up oil extraction in Ukraine, the company’s press service reported. In line with the agreement with the Ukrainian company Universal Drilling Technique (aka UniDrillTech) Belarusian specialists intend to carry out five special operations using the technology that has been…
Falling grain deliveries by trucks have resulted in a heavier load on railways. At the same time, the railcar fleet, which consists of 11,500 to 13,000 grain-carrying cars according to different estimates, constantly shrinks and is 95% worn-out. Since the Ukrainian Railways merely lacks money to replace its railcar fleet, the only way out is…
Enterprises of the Belarusian Industry Ministry are invited to take part in the project to set up a Russian industrial zone in Egypt. The project was presented during the latest session of the joint board of the Belarusian Industry Ministry and the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry in Moscow. The invitation was extended by Russian…
Plans have been made to adopt a document formalizing the intended figures of food export to Russia in February 2017, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats reported. The official specified that Belarus was planning to sell some 4.1 million tons of milk and dairy products and over 300,000 tons meat and meat products to…
Belarus has resumed the deliveries of jet fuel produced by OJSC Naftan to Ukraine, Commercial Director of CJSC Belarusian Oil Company (BNK) Sergey Grib has said. “We have resumed deliveries to the Ukrainian market this month. We have talks with our Ukrainian colleagues, we have found understanding: in order to monitor and combat jet fuel…
Ukrainian farmers are completing sunseed harvesting. As of November 14, they harvested 5816 thousand ha, or 98% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha). That was 16% more than on the same date last season (4992 thousand ha). Farmers obtained 13159 KMT of sunseed with an average yield of 2.26 MT/ha, which is an all-time…
Belarus’ gross domestic product (GDP) reduced by 2.8% YoY in January-October to 78.097 billion Belarusian rubles ($39.87 billion at the central bank’s exchange rate), an official with Belarus’ National Statistics Committee reported. Industrial output in January-October fell by 1.5% YoY to Br64.93 billion ($33.15 billion). Farm output grew b 3.8% YoY to Br13.547 billion ($6.92…