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…
Ukraine in the first half of 2017 implemented 415 international technical assistance projects worth a total of $5.32 billion, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported. The major donors of technical assistance remained the U.S. with 104 projects worth $1.5 billion, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with 39…
Ornex, a company operated by SCM Group, has bought a 25% stake in DTEK Dniproenergo and DTEK Dniprooblenergo from the State Property Fund of Ukraine. The deal has taken place at PFTS Stock Exchange. The company paid UAH 728.236 million for a 25% stake in DTEK Dniproenergo, and UAH 1,004.676 billion for a 25% stake…