Both export and domestic grain prices showed growth last week. Export wheat prices gained $1-2 supported by global trends and seasonal complications in seaports. An announcement of ice campaign usually causes some increase in grain handling costs (although insignificant). Moreover, Ukrainian hryvnia fluctuated and traders continued buying grain actively last week. The prices for 2nd…
In 2016 Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 1.939 million tons of flour, down by 4.8% YoY, the State Statistics Service declared. In particular, the production volumes in December 2016 totaled 180 thousand tons, up by 1.9% MoM and down by 5% YoY. In 2016 the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in Ukraine totaled 4.401…
Naftogaz Ukrainy from February 1, will raise the price of gas sold to industrial customers on a prepayment basis by 22%, or UAH 1,663, to UAH 9,215 per 1,000 cubic meters (including VAT). According to a company press release, this price is relevant for consumers buying gas in the amount of more than 50,000 cubic…
The Ukrainian State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving and the Republic of Belarus are expected to sign a road map related to cooperation in energy efficiency and renewable energy in 2017-2020. The agency’s press service has reported this after a meeting between Ukrainian State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Chairman Sergiy…
The European Union will issue EUR 800,000 for the repair and equipment of administrative services centers, Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Hagstrom has said. “If the services are provided on time, qualitatively and comply with the regulations, this will raise the level of public confidence in the centers and will confirm the best relations between…
The Ukrainian government expects the increase in the net inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2017 to reach $4.5 billion, according to the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov. “The net inflow of direct investment we expect will grow from about $3.8 billion last year to $4.5 billion in 2017,”…
Kyiv expects Canada to ratify the free trade area (FTA) agreement with Ukraine in March, while the Verkhovna Rada might ratify this agreement in February, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Trade Representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolska has stated. She stressed that ratification of the agreement in both countries depended on the two countries’…