Polish shipbuilding industry officials are willing to set up cooperation with counterparts in Ukraine to restore the latter’s merchant fleet. Tadeusz Kopowski, chief of the Crist shipbuilding company, spoke about this in the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Entrepreneurship Forum in Warsaw. “Poland’s shipbuilding industry proposes to create permanent Polish-Ukrainian working groups, in which we would…
Poland’s retail sales increased in real terms by 8.2% YoY, but fell by 1.7% MoM in May, the Central Statistical Office said on June 22. Economists expected May’s retail sales to grow in real terms by 8.1% YoY and drop by 0.1% MoM. In current prices, retail sales increased by 23.6% YoY in May against…
Exports of Polish agricultural and food products grew by 19.5% YoY between January and April, reaching a value of EUR 14.0 billion, the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR) reported. Poland exported most of its produce, 75%, to other EU countries in the first four months of the year. The value of shipments to the…
Poland’s average corporate gross monthly wage rose by 13.5% YoY, to PLN 6,399.59 (EUR 1,379) in May, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on June 21. In monthly terms, the average wage fell by 3.4%. Economists polled by PAP expected a 14.7% annual increase in the corporate wage in May and a 2.4% monthly decline.…
Poland’s industrial output rose by 15% YoY in May, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on June 21. Month on month, industrial output increased by 1.4%. Economists polled by PAP expected May’s manufacturing to grow by 16.7% YoY and by 2.5% MoM. Seasonally adjusted industrial production went up by 11.9% YoY, but declined by 1.7%…
According to a report from employment and HR consultancy Personnel Service, Poland ranks third in Europe in terms of the number of people working in the automotive sector. According to Personnel Service, based on Eurostat data, over 12.7 million people in the European Union are employed directly or indirectly in that sector. Employment in the…
As many as 240,000 Ukrainians have found employment under a simplified procedure introduced to help them find work, the Polish family and social policy minister said on June 20. Under a special law, Ukrainian citizens who arrived in Poland after February 24, when Russia invaded their country, can take up employment without the need to…