Garlyk mining and processing plant for the production of potassium fertilizers will be inaugurated on March 31, Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. Equipped with the most advanced technologies, this plant will become the flagship of the Turkmen chemical industry and the largest industrial-production complex in the Asian continent. The fact that its construction…
State-controlled Oschadbank (Kyiv) has attracted credit resources from the German-Ukrainian Fund (GUF) in the amount of EUR 8 million and UAH 50 million to finance micro, small and medium-sized businesses. According to a bank press release, the parties signed the relevant credit agreements within the framework of the memorandum on strategic partnership and cooperation on…
Sunseed crushing volumes have been shrinking for a second month in a row in the current 2016/2017 season. Ukraine’s large and medium-sized crushers produced 439.2 KMT of sunoil in February, down by 7.7% MoM (475.7 KMT). However, 2016/2017 production continues to be all-time high in terms of both February and seasonal outputs. Sunoil production by…
Belarus and Turkmenistan are able to raise trade to $1 billion, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Turkmenistan Oleg Tabanyukhov declared on March 29. “Our embassy should treble our efforts. Our task is to raise the trade to $1 billion. Today we are exploring the ways to accomplish this task,” Oleg Tabanyukhov said. In…
The process of inventory of two troubled commercial banks – Tajprombank (Tajik Joint-Stock Commercial Industrial Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and Fononbank – is going on and special administrators appointed by the court say the banks have enough assets to settle with their customers. The banks began paying out savings starting from March 16. The…
In 2017, Kherson region is expected to raise investments worth $250 million thanks to building new alternative energy facilities within its area, Kherson Regional State Administration Head Andriy Hordeyev has stated in a report on the administration’s management performance for 2016. “In 2017, thanks to new energy facilities, we expect to reach 250 megawatts of…
DTEK Naftogaz has announced a tender to select a contractor for drilling four wells at the Semyrenkivske gas condensate field, the company has reported. All wells are slant wells, their depth is 5,500-5,700 meters. The drilling is to be finished in 2017-2019. Bids can be submitted until April 20. The conditions of the offer meet…
Once the sale of Sberbank of Russia’s subsidiary in Ukraine is closed, the bank will be renamed Norvik Banka. “The bank will be renamed. By all appearances, its name will be Norvik Banka, because it will be a subsidiary of European bank Norvik Banka,” Russian-born businessman Grigory Guselnikov said. The change in the bank’s brand…
Ukraine exported 2,900 tons of cranberries and bilberries in 2016, up 3.3-fold YoY, Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported. The largest importers of Ukrainian berries were Poland (1,400 tons), the Netherlands (613 tons) and Belarus (541 tons). In general, exports of cranberries and bilberries brought $6.9 million of currency income last year. The…
Kazakh barley exports turned down again in January. 89.8 KMT of this commodity was shipped for export in January against 148 KMT in January 2016 (down by almost 40%). Thus, Kazakhstan exported 27% less barley in the five months of the current season compared to the same period a year ago (445 KMT against 609…
In 2016, the exports of goods from Ukraine totaled $36.4 billion, a decrease of 4.6% compared with 2015 (down by $1.8 billion), the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine reported. According to the announcement, there was a significant slowdown in the rates of exports falling in comparison with the beginning of 2016. In…
The first presentation of Belarus compact tractors made at the Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units took place at Junction 24, one of the largest livestock markets of the UK Sedgemoor Auction Center. The presentation of Belarusian products was organized by the Banwell-based company Belarus Tractors Ltd. Since 2016, this company has been the…
A major trade fair of Uzbekistan’s exports, including auto goods and food products, is expected to take place in Dushanbe next month, according to the press center of Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI). Organized by Tajik and Uzbek CCIs and Uzbek national exhibition company Uzexpocenter under support of the governments of Tajikistan and…
President Shavkat Mirziyoev reviewed the project for expansion of Navoi TPP. The construction of the second steam-gas unit with the capacity of 450 MW will provide Navoi mining and metallurgical works, the joint stock company Navoiazot and consumers of agricultural industry with uninterrupted electricity supply. The project will decrease the consumption of conditional fuel to…
47 food industry enterprises of Kyrgyzstan can export their products to the countries of EEU, Director of the State Inspectorate for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Safety Kalysbek Zhumakanov declared on March 28, at a press conference. According to him, favorable epizootic situation and enterprises meeting the standards of EEU are necessary for the export of food…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed Ayten Rustamova the bank’s new head of office in Tajikistan, said the message on EBRD’s website. Ayten Rustamova will be based in Dushanbe, where she replaces Richard Jones who has returned to EBRD London headquarters. The EBRD also has a second office in the country,…
The National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) has introduced the entry-exit tariff system for the gas transport system (GTS) from April. The regulator made the decision in Kyiv on March 28. The new tariffs are calculated using the methods approved by the commission in December 2015. The methods take into account…
PJSC Borschahivsky Chemical Pharmaceutical Plant in 2016 doubled net profit in comparison with 2015, to UAH 118.702 million. According to the company’s announcement of a shareholders’ meeting scheduled for April 27, posted in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, its assets for the reporting period increased by 14.6%, to…
Belarusian banks demonstrate an increasing interest in the exchange market of deposit auctions, Andrei Aukhimenya, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange (BCSE), reported. The Chairman of the Board said: “Last week we launched the exchange market of deposit auctions. Several days of active trading demonstrated that banks were now fighting…
The State Tax Service of Kyrgyzstan is preparing anti-corruption amendments to tax legislation, suggesting new categories of taxpayers, the press service of the department reported. As noted, it is planned to introduce new categories – “individual labor activity” and “individual entrepreneurial activity.” This will eliminate the risk of applying corruption measures to them. To reduce…
In 2005-2016, the milk production in Ukraine fell by almost 25%, Mykola Kovalsky, the marketing and communications director of the Astarta agro-industrial holding said. “In 2005-2016, the milk production in Ukraine fell by almost 25%, while the cow population in our country decreased by more than 45%,” Mykola Kovalsky said. The State Statistics Service of…
Pamir Energy Company is one of the international finalists for the prestigious Ashden Award. The 2017 Ashden Award judges have reportedly narrowed down the finalists for this year’s Awards to 22 impressive organizations, covering what they consider to be the best in sustainable energy around the world. International finalists are truly global, with projects in…
On March 17, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the resolution ‘On additional favorable conditions for entrepreneurial activity in Karakalpakstan and Khorezm regions’. The resolution aims at boosting economy, supporting entrepreneurs, nudging exports, and implementing investment projects in the two regions. Legal entities registered and doing business in Karakalpakstan and Khorezm are exempt from compulsory sale of…
Construction of two pedestrian overpasses in Bishkek was estimated at 37,99.5 million soms, State procurement portal reported. Pedestrian overpasses are planned to be built on Shabdan Baatyr (nearby Madina market) and Kurmanjan Datka Streets (Alamedin complex). Funds for construction are allocated from the city budget. Each of the overpasses will cost more than 18 million.…
Housing construction considerably increased in Kazakhstan in 2016. As much as 89,400 new apartments were built in the country in the past year. It is the highest level in all the 25 years of Kazakhstan’s independence. The previous highest rate in housing construction was recorded in 1991, when 84,500 apartments were built in Kazakhstan. The…
Kyiv’s district administrative court has declared unlawful the decision of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers not to allow Yuzgaz B.V. (the Netherlands) to participate in the product sharing agreement (PSA) on the Yuzivska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions) and obliged the government to resume the consideration of the company’s application. The court ruling was published in…
First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) finished 2016 with a net profit of 367 million UAH. At the same time, bank’s operating profit amounted to 1.8 billion UAH. The bank reduced allocations to reserves more than 3.5-fold, from 4.8 billion UAH in 2015 to 1.3 billion UAH in 2016. According to the results of 2016, FUIB’s…