Cargo traffic at the Port of Liepaja in January-July increased by 6.8% YoY and totaled 3.79 million tons, the Liepaja Port Authority statistics showed. Seven-month volume of grain fell by 0.8%, to 1.34 million tons, anthracite volume plummeted by 86.6%, to 28,800 tons, handling of building materials declined by 0.6%, to 416,100 tons, and oil…
Uzbekistan’s gross gold and FX reserves as of August 1 amounted to $35.1 billion, according to the data unveiled by the Central Bank. This is by $964 million more than as of July 1. The regulator said that the gold price was the main reason for growth. The country has almost $21.5 billion worth of…
Boryspil International Airport, located just outside Kyiv, ranked fifth in 2021 among the 10 best airports across the region of Eastern Europe, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported. “Since 1999, the rating has been formed annually by the UK-based Skytrax consultancy. Winners are determined through a global survey of airport customers. Travelers from more than 100…
Fitch Ratings revised the Outlook on Ukraine’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Positive from Stable and affirmed the IDR at B. “On August 6, the international credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings revised the outlook on Ukraine’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) from stable to positive and affirmed the IDR at B,” the…
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced at a government meeting that starting from January 2022, “we will gradually increase the salaries of public servants”, while the salaries of mayors were planned to be doubled. Garibashvili said that as of today the salaries of mayors amounted to 1,800-2,000 GEL (about $648.30 or EUR 551.47), “which is…
The actual unemployment level in Latvia has decreased to 7.3%, or by 0.1% MoM. At the same time, the competition to find suitable employees is on a rise among employers, the director of Latvia’s State Employment Agency (NVA) Evita Simsone said. She said the situation was rather stable and typical for Latvia’s labor market. Currently…
The total production of industrial enterprises rose by 11% YoY in June, Statistics Estonia reported, the third month in a row to see a year-on-year increase. Production increased in all three major industrial sectors during that time: in mining (by 19%), in energy (by 14%) and in manufacturing (by 10%). Helle Bunder, one of the…