Ukrainian sugar refineries have produced 1.69 million tons of sugar since August 30, 2018, when the current sugar production season began with the launch of a sugar refinery in Tomashpil, Vinnytsia region. “As of January 14, some 1.69 million tons of sugar had been produced and 12.46 million tons of sugar beets had been processed,”…
CSA Czech Airlines will resume flights on the Odesa-Prague route from May 30. According to the press service of Odesa International Airport, from May 30 Czech Airlines flights from Prague to Odesa will be operated twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. From June 17 a flight on Saturday will be added, and from July…
In 2018, UAH 729.4 billion of payments were transferred to the general fund of the state budget, up by 15.2% YoY. The government’s press service posted this on its Facebook page. This amount includes UAH 390.6 billion of tax payments and UAH 338.8 billion of customs payments. Thus, the state received important financial resources to…
Ukraine’s low-cost airline SkyUp plans to perform direct flights between Lviv and Odesa and filed a request for the necessary slots. According to the schedule published on the website of the Odesa airport, flights are to be conducted on Boeing 737-800 aircraft three times a week from June 2. At the same time, SkyUp said…
President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine’s economic growth in 2019 is expected to reach about 3.4% of GDP, which is the highest in eight years. “We hope that this year economic growth will be within 3.4% – this is a record figure in 8 years. But it’s only the beginning of implementation and results…
Ukrainian producers in 2018 boosted exports of eggs in shell by 21.3%, to almost 107,500 tons, while shell egg exports in monetary terms increased by 37.1%, to $94.1 million. Imports of eggs in shell in 2018 decreased by 40% in physical terms and by 32% in monetary terms, to 3,400 tons and $13.1 million, respectively,…
The World Bank has predicted a decline in real GDP of Ukraine, from 3.5% in 2018 to 2.9% in 2019, which is fundamentally different from the IMF forecasts for Ukraine after the launch of the new Stand-By Arrangement. The World Bank published the relevant data in the report Global Economic Prospects on its official website.…