Ukraine’s first surgery to install a mechanical heart was successful, the patient breathes and speaks on his own and says his relatives have visited him, CEO of Heart Institute (Kyiv) Borys Todurov has said at a press conference. According to him, a German company under the guarantee of payment provided the patient with a mechanical…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts that Ukraine will harvest 61.22 million tons of grain in the current agricultural year (July 2016 – June 2017) and this is 2.4% more than the previous forecast. The country will export 33.63 million tons of grain (3% up on the previous forecast). Ukraine’s feed grain harvest will…
Ukraine has increased gas imports from Hungary by 60%, to 1.6 million cubic meters per day, according to Ukraine’s gas transmission system operator Ukrtransgaz. Ukraine will be able to use money allocated by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to purchase gas starting from July 20. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)
SC “UkrOboronProm” encourages development of engineering industry enterprises in Ukraine. In the first half of 2016, the number of working plants in this sector increased rapidly, as the State Concern attracted 296 domestic enterprises to import substitution program fulfillment. This is the result of the Memorandums of Cooperation signed by UkrOboronProm and Regional State Administrations.…
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Ukraine Ilkham Aliyev and Pyotr Poroshenko have discussed potential resumption of works within the Odessa-Brody pipeline project, Aliyev said at a joint press conference with Poroshenko. “We’ve discussed the Odessa-Brody project and gave instructions to resume the project”, he said, adding that the project “is creating good opportunities.” The Odessa-Brody pipeline…
In May Ukraine exported 213.8 KMT of soybean compared with 243.6 KMT in April 2016 and 150 KMT in May 2015. Despite the fact that during the last three months exports are higher than last year, total shipments during nine months of the 2015/2016 season (1941.5 KMT) are lower than last marketing year when 2092.3…
In May large and medium sized enterprises of Ukraine produced 326.5 KMT of sunflower oil compared to 348 KMT in April 2016 and 279 KMT in May 2015. Since the beginning of the season 3063.4 KMT of sunflower oil was produced, up by 53.6 KMT YoY. Considering the tendency of Ukrainian sunflower oil production by…