As of October 24, 5.4 million cubic meters of natural gas were extracted from the Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities, and 1.3 million cubic meters of natural gas were pumped into the storage facilities, the press service of PJSC Ukrtransgaz reports. Thus, Ukraine’s natural gas stocks decreased from 16.973 billion cubic meters to 16.969 billion…
Since the beginning of 2017-2018 MY and as of October 24, the Ukrainian grain exports totaled 12.595 million tons, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, during the period Ukraine exported 7.687 million tons of wheat, 3.432 million tons of barley, 1.44 million tons of corn, 6.2 thousand tons of rye, and 30…
The public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia would upgrade around 500 sleeping cars by the end of 2018, which is almost one sixth of the operating fleet, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said at a government meeting. “By the end of this year Ukrzaliznytsia seeks to upgrade 188 passenger cars. Next year it is planned…
The public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia in 2018 seeks to build 4,000 gondola cars and around 200 fitting platforms at own production facilities – Paniutyne, Stryi and Darnytsia car repair plants. Head of the car department at Ukrzaliznytsia Oleh Motin gave the information at the international conference “Car Building & Rolling Stock Repair in Ukraine” in…
The State Fishing Agency reports a decline in fish catch in Ukrainian water basins (inland water basins and seas) in January-September by 13.9% YoY, to 35,200 tons. Fish catch in the Black Sea remained unchanged at 3,900 tons. Some 13,900 tons of fish was caught in the Azov Sea (down by 31%). Fish catch in…
The state-owned Oschadbank (Kyiv) seeks to boost the share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in its loan portfolio 6-fold by 2020, to 30%, Oschadbank Board Chairman Andriy Pyshny has said. “The development strategy of Oschadbank, which has been in the active phase of modernization in the past three years carried out jointly with our…
Sergiy Tigipko intends after the purchase of VS Bank (Lviv) to merge it with TAScombank (Kyiv), the businessman said during the Ukrainian banking forum CIS Bankers held in Kyiv. “We want to merge VS Bank and TAScombank – we undertook such obligations. This will allow us to significantly increase the capital (by 60%), which we’ve…