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…
Industrial production in Ukraine in September decreased by 0.3% YoY, while in August it increased by 1.2%, the State Statistics Service has said. The agency said taking into account adjustment for the effect of calendar days, industrial production in September from September 2016 declined by a mere 0.1%. It said in comparison with the previous…
Italy-based Ernest Airlines carried out its first flight from Orio al Serio International Airport (Milan/Bergamo) to the Ukrainian Danylo Halytskyi International Airport in Lviv with 102 passengers on board on October 20, according to Lviv airport’s press service. The plane made its return flight to Milan with 99 passengers on board, it said. Ernest Airlines…
Ukrainian and Polish Infrastructure Ministers Volodymyr Omelyan and Andrzej Adamczyk have signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of an international infrastructure project – the construction of the Via Carpatia transport corridor. The document was signed in Przemysl on October 22 in the presence of Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy and Marshal of the…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman says that the quality of railway services to city of Mariupol will be improved. “As to the transport connection with Mariupol, I fully agree that railway services are in poor conditions there. So, the railway authorities have already been instructed to modernize the rolling stock and improve the transport…
The Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) plans to sell 800 million cubic meters of gas to Ukraine in 2017. Furthermore, the company plans to increase supplies to Ukraine in the near future, Maciej Wozniak, Vice Chairman of the PGNiG Management Board for Trade, declared during the Polish-Ukrainian Gas Forum in Wroclaw. “I hope that…
The volume of trade turnover between Ukraine and Korea is expected to reach over $800 million this year and $1 billion next year, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine Mr. Lee Yang-goo stated at a press conference on October 19. “In the first half of the year, the trade turnover between Ukraine and…