In the first half of 2023, grain transshipment at the Port of Gdynia reached a record-high level of 3.3 million tons, deputy infrastructure minister announced on the X platform on September 12. The Puls Biznesu business newspaper reported on September 11 that 130% more grain was exported through terminals at the Port of Gdynia in…
Moldova will have direct flights from Chisinau to Iceland destinations. The Cabinet has approved the initiation of negotiations on the draft Agreement between the governments of Moldova and Iceland on air services. The agreement aims at setting cooperation relations in the air transport and to strengthen diplomatic and economic relations between the states. The document…
The Defense Procurement Agency under Ukraine’s Defense Ministry will build up clear and transparent relations with all stakeholders, CEO Arsen Zhumadilov has said. “All procurement processes are similar if they are clearly run from A to Z. Whether it is a purchase worth a million, one hundred million or ten billion. Market analysis must be…
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko and European Commission’s Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Gert Jan Koopman discussed progress in the preparation of the Ukraine Plan under the EU’s Ukraine Facility programme. The parties agreed on the further schedule of meetings, the list of documents required for approval…
The National Employment Agency (ANOFM) has offered more than 10,600 vacant jobs to citizens. According to the institution, 22% of the jobs are for people with higher and post-secondary education and 78% – for people with secondary vocational education and unqualified workers. At the same time, 87% of all vacant jobs are from the urban…
Philip Morris International (PMI) will spend over PLN 1 billion (EUR 214 million) on a new production plant for heated tobacco sticks to be located in Krakow, southern Poland, the firm’s CEO has announced. Michal Mierzejewski, president of PMI for north-east Europe, told a news conference on September 12 that since 1996 PMI had invested…
Last week, Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine Olga Zykova met with IFC’s Country Manager for Ukraine and Moldova Lisa Kaestner. The parties discussed the mechanisms for attracting private investments in Ukraine’s recovery as well as the priority areas of cooperation. Olga Zykova thanked IFC for the joint work on the implementation of initiatives to…