About 40 companies from Belarus have taken part in the Belarusian-Russian program meant to monitor the quality and safety of food products, Director General of the Eurasian Agency for International Cooperation Alexander Olshevsky informed. A summarized report will be published in late August. “Dozens of companies are still in the final stages of testing. Several…
DetailsIn January-July JSC Rosterminalugol (port Ust-Luga, Leningrad Region) handled 9.6 million tons of coal, which is nearly the same as in 7M’15, says the company. In July, the company handled 1.7 million tons of export coal, up by 6% YoY. Coal intended for exports to the Netherlands (ARA ports), Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Turkey,…
DetailsThe World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will lobby for a change in the route of the gas pipeline Power of Siberia-2 in order to preserve the UNESCO World Heritage Site Golden Mountains of Altai, WWF Russia’s extractive industry environmental policy officer Alexey Knizhnikov said. In 2015, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation…
DetailsУслуга доставка цветов Запорожье уже многие годы пользуется стабильным спросом. И это абсолютно неудивительно. Ведь изысканные букеты являются неотъемлемыми деталями каждого праздника. Их преподносят в качестве дополнения к основному презенту на свадьбе, юбилеи или дне рождения. Кроме этого свежими цветами украшаются банкетные залы. Однако приятнее всего получать цветы без повода. В таком случае они напрямую…
DetailsПодключение Интернета – невероятно востребованная сейчас услуга. Он позволяет получать доступ к огромному потоку информации. Им активно пользуются люди деловой сферы, студенты, обычные обыватели. Нужен Интернет для работы, обучения, развлечений. К тому же он открывает доступ к online-каналам коммуникации. С его помощью можно легко связаться с человеком, который находится даже на другом континенте. Вот только,…
DetailsState Enterprise Antonov (Kyiv) will appeal to international aviation organizations with the request to lift responsibility for the safety of flights of Russian transport An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft if Russian aviation authorities illegally, in violation of the rules, decide on the withdrawal of them from under the supervision of the developer and transfer its functions to…
DetailsThe Committee on industry, construction and trade held a conference on “Development of electro-technical industry in Uzbekistan: status and prospects”. The event was attended by deputies of the Legislative chamber of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan, representatives of ministries and departments, heads of enterprises, members of the JSC “Uzeltehsanoat” and employees of the mass media. The…
DetailsRussian gas exports to non-CIS countries in January-July increased by 10.7% YoY, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said. “According to preliminary data, in the first 7 months of 2016, export of Russian gas to non-CIS countries increased by 10.7% or by 9.5 billion cubic meters YoY. The leader in growth in absolute terms is United Kingdom…
Details“Okhotnik is planned to be integrated with the target sight optoelectronic systems of the fixed-wing/rotor-wing aircraft and other sophisticated military equipment. The system is intended for the electronic stabilization of the images and the detection/tracking of targets in automatic mode. Okhotnik increases the range of target acquisition in harsh environment by 50-100%”, a KRET`s spokesperson…
DetailsBy 2020, the Russian agro-industrial complex will have received nearly 1 trillion RUR of investments for further development, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev declared. According to him, it is necessary to discuss all ambitious plans for the following 20 years now, because all market participants have to understand the vector…
DetailsUkrainian 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…
DetailsUkraine 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…
DetailsUkrainian 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…
DetailsSupplies 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…
DetailsOn 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)
Total E&P Russie, a 100% affiliate of Total group, has transferred a 20% participating interest in and the operatorship of the Production Sharing Agreement for the Development and Production of Oil in the Kharyaga Field to Zarubezhneft-Production Kharyaga LLC, a subsidiary of Zarubezhneft JSC. Pursuant to Amendment No. 3 to the Kharyaga PSA signed by…
DetailsAs of July 1, oilseed stocks at Russian enterprises were 675 KMT, up by 268 KMT, or by 66% YoY (407 KMT).
Sunflower seed stocks are 100% higher than last year. Thus, there were 389 KMT of sunflower seed against 184 KMT in 2015. (UkrAgroConsult/Business World Magazine)
Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, and as of July 27, the volume of grain exports from Russia totaled 1.71 million tons, up by 7.4% YoY (1.6 million tons), the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation declared. According to the announcement, the wheat volumes formed 1.24 million tons from the reporting export volumes, barley…
DetailsThe Aviadarts flight skills competitions among combat planes held in Russia will expand beyond the country’s borders in 2018, Russia’s Aerospace Forces Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said. International air forces competitions Aviadarts-2016 kicked off on July 31, in the city of Ryazan. Pilot teams from Russia, China, Belarus and Kazakhstan were partaking in the…
DetailsRussia’s cabinet of ministers has submitted the agreement on extension of trade and economic ties with Jordan to the State Duma (lower house of parliament) for ratification as the text of the document has been posted in the Duma’s electronic database. The agreement was inked by representatives of the two countries’ governments on November 18,…
DetailsThe Ministry of Agriculture of Russia proposes to cancel the customs duties on wheat exports in 2016/2017 MY, the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said.
Last week the Ministry’s press-service reported that the Ministry of Agriculture would prepare formal recommendations to the government on the reporting issue. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Russia-Chinese project on grain processing is expected to be launched in Tatarstan with investments of 15 billion RUR. An industrial park “Saosyan-Volga” is going to be constructed at the area of 100 ha with annual processing capacity of 300 KMT. 200 types of food products (including unique ones: grain protein as a substitute to soybean…
DetailsGrain 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…
DetailsProactive discussion of benefits for the mineral extraction tax (MET) on offshore fields is expected to start this fall, Russian Minister of Natural Resources Sergei Donskoi said. “We have not yet discussed it in detail. However, I think more active discussion will start in fall”, Donskoi said. Meanwhile, the ministry will support any project stimulating…
DetailsThe National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has permitted international institutions to provide humanitarian aid to individuals using electronic money, the central bank has said in its website. Amendments to the provision on e-money in Ukraine are outlined in NBU resolution No. 358 dated July 26, that took effect on July 30. The document improves the…
DetailsLast week weather was hot and rains were minor falling locally in the Eastern and Northern regions. Average daily air temperature ranged from +18.3C to 25.2C and was 2.9-5.7C higher than norm. Light rains varied from 5 to 16.6 mm, with the norm of 21-23 mm for this period. Such conditions were unfavorable for the…
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