Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that natural gas production in the country could expand to 500 million cubic meters in 2017. “This year we increased own production to 50 million cubic meters of gas. Next year we expect the increase it to 500 million. I think that by 2020 we would be able…
Ukraine’s seaports handled 4.22 MMT of vegoils in January-November, up by 16.9% YoY (3.61 MMT). The greatest handling volumes were accounted for by the following ports: Mykolaiv (1.78 MMT), Chornomorsk (1.19 MMT), Yuzhny (0.94 MMT), Odessa (0.11 MMT) and Mariupol (0.07 MMT). Ukraine’s ports handled 34.986 MMT of grains in January-November, up by 6.3% YoY…
Top managers of the public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant have asked the Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to set the beneficial price for the plant or include it in the production chain of a gas producer, First Deputy Board Chairman Mykola Schurikov has said. “We have sent an official letter to Groysman. We have suggested…
Low marginality of flour production does not allow Ukrainian companies-processors to realize significant investments in reconstruction of their enterprises, and denies the opportunity to improve qualitative characteristics of the final product, and reduce its production costs, the co-owner of the group of companies Ukr-Agro-Product LLC, Khlebodar and GFS Group Boris Shestopalov declared. According to him,…
Although Ukraine has confirmed its readiness to buy 1.5-4 billion cubic meters of Russian gas this winter and Moscow said it was ready to ensure exports to Ukraine and the E.U., no final deal was reached during the talks, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported. “The Ukrainian side has expressed its readiness to buy 1.5-4…
In July-November Ukraine significantly increased the exports of peas to Pakistan, which reached 39.9 thousand tons, up by 75% YoY (22.8 thousand tons), and by 8% compared with the whole 2015/2016 MY (36.8 thousand tons). The current trends in peas production in Ukraine allowed increasing the exports, not only to Pakistan, but also on the…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has permitted government customers to extend the terms for sending advance payments to buy specialized equipment required for the implementation of the Vilkha defense project to 24 months. The requirement is outlined in the government resolution No. 891 dated November 30, amending government resolution No. 117 dated April 23, 2014. The…