Ukraine boosted electricity exports by 19.36% in 2018 from 2017, to 6.166 billion kWh. Over the period under review, Ukraine exported about 3.59 billion kWh of electricity to Hungary, which accounted for 58% of electricity sales abroad, 1.4 billion kWh to Poland (23%), and 960 million kWh to Moldova (16%), according to the website of…
PJSC Centrenergo will be transferred to gas coal in 2019, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said. “PJSC Centrenergo consumed 2.2 million tons of anthracite in 2016, 800 thousand tons in 2017, and 400 thousand tons in 2018. The balance forecast and fuel structure for 2019 envisage no anthracite consumption at all,” Nasalyk…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) forecasts that inflation rate in Ukraine will not exceed 7% at the end of the year. NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii said this during his speech in the Verkhovna Rada. “Inflation is expected to be not more than 7% at the end of the year, namely 6.9%,” said Smolii. As…
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said the growth of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 was estimated at more than 3%. “The beginning of 2019 is positive: estimates suggest GDP growth in 2018 exceeded 3%, inflation was less than 10%, and the average…
The number of registered unemployed people in Ukraine in the last month of 2018 increased by 40,700 MoM and amounted to 341,700, the State Statistics Service has reported, with reference to the State Employment Service. The registered unemployment rate thus increased to 1.3% from 1.2% in November 2018. According to the service, the greatest increase…
Wizz Air will not sell tickets for Kharkiv-London flights due to the low demand for this route. Now the company’s website offers to buy tickets up to February 9. The management of the Kharkiv airport confirmed that the carrier had decided to cancel the flights. Wizz Air performed the first Kharkiv-London flight on November 13,…
In 2019, the construction of a new airport in Dnipropetrovsk region will be launched. “This year, we launch the construction of an airport in Dnipropetrovsk region at the initiative of the government. It is the first airport that will be built since Ukraine has gained the independence. We assume that this airport should be located…