The US investment fund Navigator Principal Investors LLC plans to invest nearly $100 million in the development of the Ukrainian ports and agriculture, the head of the fund Kyle Shostak declared. “We are looking at the ports and agriculture. There are not so many ports in Ukraine. We keep an eye on Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson…
According to the current information of the State Statistics Service, Ukraine’s reserves of grains and pulses totaled 8.84 MMT as of June 1, up by 10.8% YoY (7.98 MMT). Wheat stocks decreased by 22.3%, to 3 MMT against 3.87 MMT reported as of June 1, 2016. Corn stocks are up by 49.5% YoY, amounting to…
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada has notified the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada about the completion of the ratification process of the Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and Canada. Thus, the agreement will come into force on August 1. The agreement was signed on July 11, 2016 during the visit…
Ukraine produced 431,000 tons of bread and bakery products in January-May, down by 7.6% YoY, according to Ukraine’s State Statistics Service. In May Ukraine produced 90,000 tons of bread, up by 5.3% MoM, but down by 3% YoY. Flour production in the five months totaled 763,000 tons, down by 1.5% YoY. Flour production in May…
There are no real threats to the Ukrainian power grid due to a huge cyber-attack, Ukrenergo Head Vsevolod Kovalchuk has said. “This virus does not carry real threats for the power grid. Professionalism of our dispatchers and engineers allows managing the Ukrainian power grid without some pieces of software using Windows OS. I hope that…
In May Ukraine exported 454 tons of pine strawberries, up 1.4-fold YoY, a record figure for the years of the country’s independence. According to the analysts, Belarus remains the main importer of Ukrainian pine strawberries. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
On June 23 Nibulon shipbuilding and repair yard solemnly launched the 121M Project tug (modernized project) Nodari Chanturiia. Nibulon says this is the last vessel of a series of three 121M Project vessels. In particular, on April 6 the fist vessel Yurii Makarov was launched in Mykolaiv; on May 24 Anatolii Hankevych tug was launched.…