The scheduled repair of Nord Stream for the period from August 9 through August 17 has resulted in a rise in Russian gas transit across the Ukrainian gas transport system to Europe by 20%, spokesman of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “Due to repair of Nord Stream gas pumping by Ukraine to…
Precipitation deficit at the background of excessive air temperatures in several Black Sea countries, particularly in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, raise market operators` concerns as to the volume of Black Sea corn supply in 2016/2017. But major attention is focused on Bulgaria and Romania, due to the fact that precipitation quantity has been lower in…
As of August 9, agricultural organizations of Belarus harvested grains and pulses throughout 1.484 million ha, or 67.2% of the planned areas, down by 48.5 thousand ha YoY. The average yield totaled 3.47 t/ha, the harvested volumes – 5.146 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus declared. Agrarians have…
Support of small and medium farms, investments in agrarian sector of Ukraine are the essential possibilities for the production of high quality products, said Taras Kutovyi, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. “Ukrainian small and medium farmers have all possibilities to become attractive players for foreign partners. Due to this, the support…
In January-July overall freight throughput of terminal operators at the Port of Kherson totaled 2.06 million tons, down by 3.5% YoY, the Center for Transport Strategies (CTS) said, citing Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA). In the reporting period the port operators handled 81,000 tons of liquid bulk cargo (up 3.1 times YoY) and 1,58 million…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has increased the cost of coal used for calculating subsidies by 30.5% or 467.1 UAH, to 2,000 UAH per ton. “If a household receives 2 tons of coal, it will receive 4,000 UAH (earlier around 3,000 UAH)”, Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva said. Along with the cost of coal, the government…
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 2.7 million tons of grains, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared on August 5. In particular, wheat exports totaled 945 thousand tons, corn – 438 thousand tons, and barley – 1.3 million tons. Ukraine supplied 10 thousand tons of wheat flour on foreign…