In August Ukraine exported 258.3 KMT of sunoil against 352.9 KMT in the previous month and 224 KMT in July 2015. Over 2015/2016 season (September-August) Ukraine shipped 4479 KMT of sunoil against 3870 KMT in 2014/2015, setting a new record. Among the key importers of Ukrainian sunoil were European countries (about 32% of all exports),…
DetailsAs of September 15, Ukrainian sugar plants produced 94 thousand tons of sugar, Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine reports. Currently, 21 sugar plants are running in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Cherkassy regions. Ukraine’s sugar production output reached 93.8 thousand tons on September 14. A total…
DetailsThe GDP growth in the second quarter of this year was 1.3%, whereas it amounted to 0.1% in the first quarter. The First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv said this at the Cabinet’s meeting. “We saw the growth of GDP by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2016…
DetailsRussia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight is concerned with the fact that Egypt ignores existing problems regarding violations in fruit and vegetable supplies. Egypt has ignored a necessity to take urgent phytosanitary measures after the Russian service reported about four quarantine cases with citrus fruit supplies from Egypt at the end of the…
DetailsRussia will finish construction of its part of a railroad bridge across the Amur River to China in mid-2018, the Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov reported. China has already finished its part of the bridge. The project should have been implemented in 2017, but the new term is 2018, Sokolov said. The project was moved from…
DetailsMatua Island, which is a part of the Kuril Archipelago, will be used for logistics purposes, the president of the Russian Geographic Society Sergey Shoigu said, adding that a pier would be built there. “We are to answer a number of specific questions, and we are to do so this year. We plan to resume…
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