The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will buy medicines under 17 state-funded programs for $48.5 million using 2016 budget funds. The first batch will arrive soon, UNDP Coordinator Zafar Yuldashev has said. “We have held tenders under two programs and signed contracts saving $3 million. Soon the medicines will be supplied”, he said. UNDP reported…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the full-featured energy market is being created in Ukraine. “The market is competition, including competitive prices for consumers. The creation of the full-featured energy market, growth of own gas production, introduction of energy efficiency and the increase of budget revenue received from state-run companies – all these…
National energy company Ukrenergo in January through October cut electricity transmission through the country’s backbone and interstate power grids by 9.5%, or by 9.448 billion kWh, to 90.293 billion kWh, the company’s press service has reported. Over the period under review, the company’s revenue from electricity transmission services grew by 33%, or by 1.368 billion…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) has expanded its fleet with another Boeing 737-800 NG. According to the press service of the company, the delivery of another airplane was the final stage of the program of the fleet expansion and improving in 2016. The Boeing 737-800 NG produced in 2009 with a passenger capacity of 186…
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) has allowed ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Sergiy Tigipko, the founder and major shareholder of TAS Group, to indirectly acquire Universal Bank (Kyiv) through Bailican Limited (Cyprus). Universal Bank was founded in 1994. The largest shareholder of the bank as of the beginning of 2016 was ERB New…
By 2050 the annual production of grain crops in Ukraine will total nearly 90 million tons, including nearly 50 million tons of grains for exports, the advisor to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Vladyslava Rutytska declared. According to her, China will become the main country-importer of Ukrainian grains. Nearly one half…
According to official information, Ukraine exported some 1355.3 KMT of corn in October, up by 3% YoY (1314.8 KMT). Nonetheless, Ukrainian corn exports did lag 3.6% behind 2015 in the first two months of the season. Ukraine supplied 1411.9 KMT of corn to foreign markets in September-October (1465.1 KMT at the same time in MY…