Ukrainian businessman Borys Kaufman intends to acquire a controlling stake in Platinum Bank (Kyiv) in the amount of 75% plus one share. According to the press service of Kaufman, on August 1, he filed a package of documents to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to obtain permission. Kaufman intends to participate in subscription to…
Ukraine pumped 1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas into the underground storage facilities in July and reached the level of 10.7 bcm of gas as of August 1, according to PJSC Ukrtransgaz’s, the Ukrainian operator of the gas transportation system. According to the Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), at present 10.66 bcm of natural…
Ukrainian natural gas consumption in January-July dropped to 17.1 billion cubic meters from 19.4 billion for the same period last year, Department of Public Relations and Press at Ukrtransgaz company reported. “The operator of the domestic pipeline system reports that the consumption of natural gas by Ukraine has amounted to 17.1 billion cubic meters since…
Supplies of Ukrainian goods to Russia dropped to 8.8% of the country’s total export volume in January-June, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported. “The European Union was Ukraine’s main trade partner to export goods in 5 months of 2016 (39.4%) while Russia’s share stood at 8.8%”, the report said. (TASS/Business World Magazine)
In January-June the joint index of costs for production of agricultural commodities in Ukraine (without the Crimea) increased by 12.2% compared with the same period of 2015, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine informed. In particular, the costs for plant growing commodities production grew by 8.6% YoY, and animal commodities – by 21.6%. According to…
On July 25-31, Ukraine exported 625.6 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 149.5 thousand tons in the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 358.9 thousand tons, corn – 48.7 thousand tons, barley – 207.2 thousand tons, and peas – 10.8 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Grain market participants are strongly interested in developing grain handling facilities in large ports and building their own logistic chains. From this viewpoint, Ukrainian grain handling segment is considered to be the most investment attractive and promising for investing. Three new grain-handling terminals were put into operation in Ukrainian seaports last season, which resulted in…