Bearish price trends persisted on the Ukrainian milling wheat market last week. Average export prices for 12.5%- protein milling wheat closed the week down by another $1-2/MT FOB for September-October delivery. Prices for wheat with 11.5% protein content remained within the last week’s range for September-October delivery. Export prices for feed wheat closed the week…
The total state (direct) and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in July increased by 1.4% or by $1.05 billion, to $76.06 billion, the Ministry of Finance said on its website. The state debt in the national currency rose by 0.69% or by UAH 13.45 billion, to UAH 1.971 trillion. Since the beginning of the year the…
As of September 4, Ukraine harvested 37.537 million tons of grains (including corn) throughout the areas of 9.794 million ha (67% of the plan). The average yield totaled 3.83 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, agrarians harvested buckwheat throughout 59 thousand ha (32%), and produced 67 thousand tons…
Municipal enterprise Kyivpastrans has announced a tender for the purchase of electronic equipment, namely technical means of automated payment systems (APS) with software and its installation. According to the announcement on the ProZorro electronic trading platform, the deadline for submitting documents for the tender is September 18, the auction will be held at 11:30 on…
Ernest Airlines intends to start flying from Kyiv to Naples and Bergamo from Kyiv and to Naples, Venice and Bergamo from Lviv in 2017. The airline said on its website that Kyiv-Naples flights would be serviced from December 9, Kyiv-Bergamo from December 4, Lviv-Bergamo from October 20, and Lviv-Venice and Lviv-Naples from December 8. The…
The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) faction in parliament has called on the government to increase the minimum wage to UAH 4,000 (about $150). The chairman of the BPP faction, Artur Herasymov, said this at a meeting of the parliament’s conciliatory council on September 4. “We are appealing to the government regarding a further increase…
Three companies have submitted applications to store natural gas in Ukrainian underground gas storage (USG) facilities in the customs warehouse regime, a source in the Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has reported. The source said that in coming days first pumping could start and first documents would be signed. Until recently, the customs clearance…