Polish oil group Orlen, which owns Lithuania’s Mazeikiai-based oil refinery Orlen Lietuva, plans to use only oil supplied by Saudi Arabia, Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys has said. “Orlen is renouncing Russian oil and plans to produce products only from Saudi Aramco’s Saudi Arabian oil,” said Kreivys. Up until now, most of Orlen Lietuva’s refined oil…
The Moldovan capital’s authorities will ask the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) for a tariff of 6 lei for one travel by trolley bus or bus. The Chisinau city hall informed that it backed the Methodology of calculation of the tariffs for one travel in the public transport from the Chisinau municipality, worked out by the…
Volunteers from Lithuania’s NGO Food Bank will collect food products for people in need and Ukrainian refugees. Volunteers will be available in supermarkets in 69 towns and cities. “Food donations during this campaign are desperately needed. We are asking people to do what they can to help, as NGOs have run out of long shelf-life…
Ukraine managed to attract about $4 billion from international partners over the past month. “We are talking about figures close to $4 billion,” Deputy Head of the President’s Office Rostyslav Shurma said during the nationwide telethon, when asked how much money Ukraine managed to raise over the past month. At the same time, he noted…
Since the beginning of the war, international partners have provided more than $2 billion and EUR 1 billion in assistance to Ukraine. As the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko said in his address, the amount includes the assistance from the IMF ($1.4 billion), macro-financial assistance from the European Union (the budget has already…
In January-February, the port of Riga handled 3.51 million tons of cargo, up by 2.5% YoY. According to the port’s statistics, grain-handling fell by 37.5%, to 351.6 thousand tons, oil products – – by 32%, to 292.7 thousand tons, metal scrap and metals – by 55.7%, to 22.6 thousand tons. Handling of chemical cargo rose…
The Construction Cost Index in Georgia increased by 13.6% in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the same period of the previous year, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) announced on March 24. The increase in construction cost was mainly influenced by price changes for the following groups: construction materials – 9.64%, wages…