Russia: car output down in July 2016

Russia’s car output plunged by 19.8% YoY and by 28.3% MoM in July, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement. In January-July car output fell by 18% YoY to 611,000 units and bus output went down by 0.8% to 19,100 vehicles, but truck production increased by 6.2% to 70,400 units. (Prime/Business World Magazine)

Russia: grain exports from seaports up

On August 8-14, the export volumes of grains from the Russian seaports reached 715.6 thousand tons up from 411.2 thousand tons shipped in the previous week. In particular, the wheat shipments totaled 634.4 thousand tons, barley – 65.9 thousand tons, and peas – 15.3 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)

Russia: 33.7 million tons of grains harvested

As of August 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 33.7 million tons in bunker weight, up by 17.1% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced. According to the announcement, agrarians harvested grains throughout the areas of 8.8 million ha, or 29.3% of…