The National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom seeks to raise $250 million from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) for building a centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility before October 2017, Energoatom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky reported. “The work has been started. At the end of the summer I signed the contract with Bank of America Merrill…
During the “ICT Global Leadership Forum” in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, Ukrainian Education and Science Minister Liliya Hrynevych made a presentation called “ICT and education in Ukraine” and described the development of information and communication technologies and how they would be applied to reforms in the secondary education in Ukraine. “The ICT field…
The scope of dredging at the seaports of Ukraine performed from the beginning of the year exceeded 4 million cubic meters, press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) reports. Dredging works have been completed at the inner harbor of Mariupol port (505,000 cubic meters of dredged material). Maintenance dredging at the approach channel to…
In September analysts of APK-Inform Agency adjusted the supply and demand balances of grains in Ukraine, and increased the forecast of the general harvest of grains and pulses in 2016/2017 MY to 63.9 million tons. This is 6.3% more compared with the harvest-2015 (60.1 million tons). (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
The government expects the auction to sell Odessa Port Plant to take place before the end of the current year. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during his conversation with journalists at the opening of the company Bila Tserkva Plant of Preparation Forms. Volodymyr Groysman noted that the government was waiting…
Ukrainian sugar producers in September 2016 exported 39,900 tons of sugar. This is the largest monthly indicator for the past five years. According to a report of the Ukrtsukor association, Sri Lanka imported 11,520 tons, Georgia imported 6,430 tons and Azerbaijan – 4,620 tons. Some 4,240 tons was shipped to Myanmar and 2,280 tons to…
According to the Agriculture Ministry, wheat planted area for the 2017 crop will remain at the previous year’s level – 6198 thousand ha. Last year winter wheat acreage was significantly lower than many-year average, which is nearly 6700 thousand ha. Given the last year’s considerable area reduction, it would be logical to expect at least…