Shokhrukh Shoakhmedov was appointed the deputy chairman of Uzbekistan’s Central Bank according to a decree of President Islam Karimov, the Central Bank said. Shoakhmedov was heading the Central Bank’s central administrative board in Tashkent. Uzbekistan’s Central Bank is tasked to regulate money circulation and activities of commercial banks in the country. Currently 26 banks operate…
According to the Ukrainian AgMin, new record was set in grain exports, which exceeded the previous volume by 5 MMT. Preliminary estimates of 2015/2016 total exports are 39.415 MMT. This includes 17.354 MMT of wheat, 17.396 MMT of corn, 4.409 MMT of barley and 256 KMT of other grain crops. In 2014/2015 34.805 MMT of…
Weather conditions were favorable for winter and spring grain crop development in May-July. During the first week of July soil moisture reserves were satisfactory except for Western regions. Last week was rather hot with minor precipitations. Currently, a dry weather phenomenon is observed in some Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Early spring crops are at…
In January-June Big Port St. Petersburg handled 24.16 million tons of cargo (down by 8% YoY). According to the port authority, transshipment of oil products fell by 34% to 3.32 million tons, dry bulk cargo – by 15% to 3.61 million tons, general cargo climbed by 1% to 6.13 million tons. The port’s container throughput…
The Taganrog Boiler-Making Works “Krasny Kotelshchik”, a member of the company Power Machines, has manufactured and shipped the chamber-type high pressure heater (chamber-type HPH) for the Belarusian NPP under construction. Large-size equipment weighing 138 tons will be installed on the first power unit of the plant. Seven similar heaters for this NPP are currently under…
Russia will approve a loan for Bangladesh amounting up to $11.38 billion for construction of Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant, the Russian Government said. The loan will cover 90% of project activities. Borrowed funds will be used for construction in 2017-2024 in accordance with the draft intergovernmental agreement. Bangladesh will repay the actually utilized loan amount…
The Guards missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, has returned to Vladivostok port after a nine-month voyage during which it has been involved in the Indra Navy naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal and provided air defense cover to Russia’s Hmeymim airbase in Syria, the press service of the Primorsky…