Belarus and Armenia have a big potential to increase mutual trade, Belarus’ Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said at a one-on-one meeting with his Armenian counterpart Karen Karapetyan. According to Karen Karapetyan, last year the two countries increased trade by 20%. However, the two states can do much more. “There are more opportunities for trade growth.…
DetailsThe distribution networks of Severelectro OJSC in Bishkek operate in regular mode, the press service of the company reported. Electricity supply, which since January 26 has been carried out with interruptions due to breakdown at the heating and power station, has been stabilized. “The requests received by the Eastern and Western RES of Severelectro were…
DetailsThe sales of new cars in Ukraine in January increased by 40.6% YoY, to 6,620 units, which was a new post-crisis record for this month, according to AUTO-Consulting. According to analysts, such a rapid increase in sales was due to the exchange rate “fever”, which forced consumers to make faster decisions about the purchase of…
DetailsThe public joint-stock company Centrenergo cut electricity generation by 36.2% in 2017, to 6.285 billion kWh. According to data from the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine, generation by Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant (TPP) was 4.134 billion kWh (down by 15.3% YoY), Zmiyivska TPP – 1.322 billion kWh (-42%) and Trypillia TPP – 829.29…
DetailsBrandy production in Armenia grew by 39.4% YoY in 2017, the National Statistical Service reveals. 30 million tons of brandy were produced in the reporting period against the 21.5 million tons made in 2016. Volumes of wine, champagne and beer production grew in 2017 by 30%, 10% and 21% respectively. Vodka production, meanwhile, declined by…
DetailsFood production in Uzbekistan decreased by 6.7 % in 2017 and amounted to 23.1 trillion soums in value terms, the Uzbek Food Industry Holding reported. The food industry’s share in the total industrial production decreased from 20% in 2016 to 16% last year, the company said. At the same time, growth was observed in many…
DetailsBelarusian-Swiss train factory Stadler Minsk will roll out the first train for the Minsk metro in Q3-Q4, Deputy Operations Director at the state-run enterprise Minsk Metro Andrei Mikhailovsky declared. The four-car train will have two control cars (one at each end of the unit). It will be operated on line 2 at first and then…
DetailsThe total amount of state and state-guaranteed debt in hryvnias as of December 31, 2017 has grown by UAH 2.142, to UAH 2.142 trillion, according to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. This is an 11% growth compared to the amount recorded in the previous reporting period. The state and state-guaranteed debt in the dollar…
DetailsThe private joint-stock company Zaporizhtransformator (ZTR) has signed three contracts to supply six transformers to committed partners in Georgia, ZTR has reported on its website. The contracts, the cost of which is not disclosed, envisage the delivery of two 40 MVA/110 kV transformers for the Vartsikhe cascade of hydroelectric power plants and two similar transformers…
DetailsThe serial production of Belarusian-Chinese 25-ton mobile cranes ZMC-25 has been started in Mogilev. The first special vehicles have already been sold to Russia, Zoomlion-MAZ Director Yuri Pivovarov declared. The Belarusian-Chinese joint venture was busy developing and certifying new models throughout last year. The mobile crane ZMC-25 was assembled in Mogilev as a prototype model…
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