Ukraine’s NNEGC Energoatom plans to hire South Korean nuclear plant operator Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to complete construction of No. 3 and No. 4 blocks at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant and implement the Ukraine-EU Energy Bridge project, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said in a statement. Energoatom and KHNP signed a…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, the Energy Ministry of Kazakhstan and Kazakh National Nuclear Company Kazatomprom have agreed to establish a joint venture (JV) for uranium mining in both countries, Ukrainian Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said, commenting on the results of his visit to Kazakhstan in mid-August. “Kazakhstan has the best desalination…
Rapeseed harvesting is complete in Ukraine. According to UkrAgroConsult estimates, rapeseed production is likely to be 30% lower than last year. Reduction of harvesting area due to significant winter rapeseed losses (234 thousand ha) was the main reason for production decline. Nevertheless, rapeseed average yields appeared to be higher than expected and even higher than…
As of August 29, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 38.266 million tons of grains and pulses throughout the areas of 9.793 million ha, or 68% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.91 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes…
The Government is engaged into work to prepare for the introduction of Ukraine’s international trade support mechanisms that will help promote domestic producers on the international arena. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced this during the meeting of the National Council of Reforms under the chairmanship of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Monday.…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stated that the investors from the South-East Asia are willing to invest in the Ukrainian economy. The President said this at the meeting of the National Council of Reforms. “We have not only European investors. Our talks during the visits to the South-East Asia show that today the investors are…
The government’s committee for economic, financial and legal policy has approved of a list of enterprises to be privatized in 2016-2017, among them are Turboatom, Electrotyazhmash, the United Mining and Chemical Company, the State Food and Grain Corporation, and a state stake in Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Combine LLC. A respective draft resolution was approved…