Ukrainian air carriers increased passenger transportation by 40% YoY in January-June, to 4.6 million people, according to the State Statistics Service. Passenger turnover for the period under review soared by 45.8%, to 8.9 million passengers/km, the report said. Air freight for the first 6 months of 2017 fell by 8.9%, to 4,000 tons, while cargo…
PrivatBank in January-March saw its net profit rise 3.52-fold, to UAH 744 million, the bank said in the information disclosure system of the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market. Its net interest income increased by 22%, to UAH 959 million. After sending UAH 2.337 billion to the reserves for bad loans, the bank’s…
PJSC Agrarian Fund is planning to launch production of buckwheat and corn flours, the company’s board chairman Andriy Radchenko said. “My task consists in ensuring profitability of the company. Products with added value are more profitable than raw materials. Therefore we constantly expand this area. The range was widened consistently: first we launched production of…
Natural gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) on July 15-22 increased by 2.9%, orby 355 million cubic meters, from 12.320 billion cubic meters to 12.675 billion cubic meters, according to the state-run gas transport system operator, Ukrtransgaz. The daily volume of gas injection into the USFs stood at about 58.7 million cubic meters,…
The State Automobile Roads Agency, also known as Ukravtodor, even if the funds from reprofiling of government domestic loan bonds are sent to the company, would not be able to use them in 2017, Ukravtodor head Slawomir Nowak has reported. “If this was the money sent to the public road fund, it would have been…
The Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has published a list of state enterprises, organizations and institutions that will either remain in state ownership or will be transferred to concession, privatized or liquidated. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the relevant documents that together represented a strategic vision for the further management of state-owned enterprises,…
According to the official statistics figures, in 2016-2017 MY Ukraine exported 5.35 million tons of barley, up by 21% YoY (4.41 million tons), which became the highest rate for the country in seven recent years. In the season 2016-2017, Saudi Arabia (42% of the general supplies) and Libya (18%) were the main importers of Ukrainian…