Transit of Russian natural gas through Ukraine’s gas transportation system (GTS) has fallen by 24.7% since July 11, according to live data from Ukrtransgaz. If on July 1-10 the average daily transit through the Ukrainian GTS amounted to 256.7 million cubic meters, on July 11 a drop to 193.4 million cubic meters was witnessed. At…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman believes that during the negotiations with the largest low cost airline in Europe Ryanair (Ireland) Ukraine should offer the airline not to quit plans to fly to Lviv. “I think that it is appropriate to make an offer during the negotiations that they are left in Lviv, as the local…
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, since the beginning of the new season-2017-2018 and as of July 12 Ukraine supplied 575 thousand tons of grain crops to foreign markets. In particular, the exports of wheat totaled 150 thousand tons, barley – 75 thousand tons, and corn – 350 thousand tons. In addition,…
Ukraine has fully used its annual quotas for the European Union’s duty-free exports for nine commodity groups in 2017, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club Association (UCAB). In particular, the quotas for honey, sugar, cereals, flour, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juice, chicken meat, and grain, namely wheat, maize, and barley…
More than UAH 16 billion will be spent on road construction in Ukraine this year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “We are confident that more than UAH 16 billion will be used for road construction where it has never been done in Ukraine this year so that people could feel we have resources to…
The state-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport in 2013-2016 provided discounts to the airport fees only to the private joint-stock company Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), according to recommendations of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine dated June 14 and published recently. “The discounts were not provided to other airlines,” the committee said. The committee said that…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has become a member of the Basel Consultative Group (BCG), the outreach arm of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS), the NBU has reported on its website. “The BCG aims at attracting supervision officials of the countries which are not committee members to the discussion of new proposals…