Vinnytsia region has significantly reduced sugar beet harvested areas. While last year sugar beet was harvested from 55 thousand hectares, this spring the sugar beet areas decreased to 44.8 thousand hectares. “Sugar beet area was planned at 48.3 thousand hectares, but it was sown only on 92%”, said the deputy director of the regional department…
DetailsSince May 1, Azerbaijan has started supplying electricity to Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary through Georgia and Turkey, Azerenergy OJSC said in a message. Azerenergy was among the winning companies participating in the auction to supply electricity to Greece and Bulgaria. The company also supplies electricity to Iran, Russia, Turkey and Georgia. In the coming…
DetailsGeorgia’s three international airports serviced 1,450,847 passengers in January-April, up by 20% YoY, says the United Airports of Georgia. The number of passengers who took regular or charter flights in Georgia increased in all three main airports of the country: Tbilisi Shota Rustaveli International Airport, Batumi Aleksandre Kartveli International Airport and Kutaisi David Aghmashenebeli International…
DetailsWhile previously a net electricity exporter for many years, Estonia has recently become an importer. As the power industry’s trade union sees it, the domestic energy production sector is at risk, with the end of national electricity markets, Estonia’s ratification of the Paris Agreement, and cheaper electricity available abroad conspiring to see the sector at…
DetailsIn April, the international passenger traffic at the Kharkiv International Airport grew by 57%. “In April, the international passenger traffic at the Kharkiv Airport totaled 75,500 people, up by 57% YoY, when the traffic was 48,100 people. Taking into account domestic flights, 92,900 passengers used the airport services in April, up by 43%,” the press…
DetailsIn January-April, local budgets received UAH 81.3 billion, up by 22.6% YoY or by almost UAH 15 billion, Ukraine’s State Fiscal Service (SFS) reports. “In January-April, according to operational data, the local budgets of Ukraine received UAH 81.3 billion of payments controlled by the SFS. This is 22.6% or almost UAH 15 billion more than…
DetailsRail Baltica has announced an international competition to design the new terminal in the Ulemiste district of Tallinn. Rail Baltic Estonia OU (note the difference in spelling), the Estonian enterprise behind the project, says the contest is aimed at providing a solution for a future joint terminal, set to include a terminal for both international…
DetailsGeorgia exported about 26 million bottles of wine to 38 countries in January-April, up by 4% YoY, announced the Georgian National Wine Agency. In the reporting period Georgia generated $63.2 million from the sale of wine abroad, up by 7%. Export of Georgian wine increased to the United States – 219,713 bottles (+108%), Israel –…
DetailsThe launch of a direct service between Vilnius Airport and London City Airport will give Lithuania another opportunity to attract London-based companies in the context of Brexit, Economy and Innovation Minister Virginijus Sinkevicius said ahead of LOT Polish Airline’s first business flight between Vilnius Airport and London City Airport. Paris and Munich are also mentioned…
DetailsUkraine’s Central Bank forecasts that the country’s GDP growth will slow down to 2.5% in 2019, only to speed up again starting next year: to 2.9% and 3.7% in 2020 and 2021, respectively. “The causes of the 2019 economic slowdown include weaker growth in the world economy and global trade, a restrained fiscal policy due…
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