Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said that the signing of an Agreement on Common Aviation Area (CAA), or “Open Skies”, with the European Commission may take place in the first half of the next year. He stated this at a joint press conference with Chief Commercial Officer at Ryanair Holdings PLC, David O’Brien. “We are…
DetailsIn January-September the production volumes of flour in Kazakhstan totaled 3.05 million tons, up by 1.9% YoY, reported the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to the announcement, Kostanay region produced the largest volumes of flour – 854.3 thousand tons, or 28% of the total volume, down…
DetailsAccording to information released by Statistics Estonia on November 20, last month the producer price index (PPI) of industrial output increased by 0.3% MoM and by 2.8% YoY. Compared to the previous month, the PPI in October was affected more than average by a price increase in the manufacture of electronic equipment and in mining…
DetailsUzbekistan has significantly increased its trade turnover with the countries of the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) in the first three quarters of 2018, Foreign Trade Minister Jamshid Khojayev declared. “It is good to see that trade with CAREC member countries is growing at an accelerated pace. In the three quarters of this year,…
DetailsUkraine’s state-run railways operator, JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, says five more locomotives built by U.S. GE Transportation’s Pennsylvania-based plant have arrived at Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk. As was the case with 15 previously delivered U.S. locomotives, the five would be sent to Ukraine’s Kremenchuk-based PJSC Kryukivsky Railway Car Building Works for final assembly. “Under the contract, the…
DetailsEconomist Viktor Skarshevsky forecasts the forex rate of Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, against the U.S. dollar at UAH 30 by late December 2018. “In November-December of 2016 and 2017 the hryvnia devalued by 5%. Let’s extrapolate from this trend, and we will get the forex rate at around UAH 29.5-30 by the end of…
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