In order to facilitate cross-border gas flows and provide free and non-discriminatory access to the gas transmission infrastructure, the National Gas Transmission Company Transgaz, Romania, and Natural Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine Ukrtransgaz have signed the interconnection agreement for the interconnection point “Isaccea” located at the Ukrainian-Romanian border near Orlovka (on the territory of…
The newly created Ukrainian airline Anda Air, which plans to perform charter flights, has received its first aircraft McDonnell Douglas MD-83. Company co-founder Serhiy Shamenko said the aircraft arrived at Kyiv Airport on July 19. Speaking about plans for the first flights, he said there were such plans, however the company needed to perform a…
In 2016 Ukrainian farmers may gather one of the richest grain harvests. Amid low world prices and strong competition, the issue of new markets searching becomes highly important. Considerable increase in wheat imports is expected from several countries: Egypt, Korea, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Growing demand of Korea for wheat imports provides Ukrainian grain…
Analysis of rapeseed and its processed products exports shows typical reduction of rapeseed supply to foreign markets in favor of its processed products export shipments – rapeseed meal and rapeseed oil. This is evidenced by rapeseed crushing increase in the country. For instance, in the 2015/2016 marketing year the share of crushed rapeseed in total…
In Q2, the National Bank of Ukraine received 163 million UAH from the sale of assets pledged as collateral by insolvent banks against refinancing loans. The proceeds from the sale of collateral more than doubled compared with the amount received in Q1 (92.3 million UAH), bringing the total amount recovered by the NBU in H1…
In 2016/2017 MY the general grain production in Ukraine (excluding the Crimea) will total 60.55 million tons, the balance sheets of NGO “Economic discussion club”, supported by the Interdepartmental working group under the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine, informed. The export potential of Ukrainian grains in the new season is forecast at 38.177 million…
The U.S. General Electric Corporation on July 21, signed letters of cooperation with Ukraine’s Antonov State Enterprise and public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia. “We sign two strategic and political documents on cooperation with GE at the Infrastructure Ministry. This decision is not accident: we were mulling the positions of all players on the global market for…