As of August 2, agrarians harvested 32.6 million tons of early grains and pulses (30.1 million tons on the same date last year) throughout the areas of 8.472 million ha, or 88% of the plan (9.6 million ha, according to estimations). The average yield totaled 3.85 t/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of…
Last week weather conditions were hot with minor local precipitations. Sunflower plants continue to undergo flowering stage and in some regions – the first stage of maturation. Head diameter is 15-19 cm, plants height – 141-217 cm. Late sown varieties are at the beginning of head formation – flowering stage. Sunflower conditions are mostly good…
In January-July seaports of Ukraine handled 74,060,000 tons of cargo (down by 9.8% YoY), says the press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. Transshipment of export cargo totaled 59,190,000 tons (-1.4%), imports – 9,282,000 tons (-10.1%), transit – 6,285,000 tons (-42.38%), inland traffic – 2,303,000 tons (-40.4%). Container throughput in seaports of Ukraine totaled 336,892…
In January-July the port of Rostov-on-Don handled 9,794,000 tons of cargo (up by 16.2% YoY), Harbour Master Pavel Zakharchenko said. Transshipment of crude and oil products climbed by 29.4% to 3,731,000 tons, grain – by 38.7% to 2,339,000 tons, coal and coke – by 25.4% to 837,000 tons, metal scrap – by 19.7% to 672,000…
AS Tallink Grupp transported 1188226 passengers in July, achieving the record of the highest passenger volumes per calendar month. Compared to the results of the last year, the passenger volumes increase by 5% and the volumes of cargo units and passenger vehicles by 3.5% and 7.2% respectively. The passenger volumes increased the most – by…
Leading CIS thin-film producer Solar Frontier said it had completed on schedule the largest PV power plant in Nagasaki Prefecture that resides next to Nagasaki airport runway. Solar Frontier noted that the 30MW SOL de Omura Minojima project started construction in April, 2015, was completed on schedule in July, 2016, including a 10 km submarine…
Trading House Socar Ukraine will supply diesel fuel priced at 17,700 UAH including VAT to state-owned Ukrzaliznytsia railway operator, the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia has reported. “Ukrzaliznytsia and Trading House Socar Ukraine signed a contract for supplying diesel fuel on August 1. The seller is to deliver 14,087 tons of fuel under the contract at…