Ukraine has announced that it is set to begin delivery of the first trams to Egypt by July, according to a statement by the Ukrainian manufacturer Tatra-Yug. The first batch of trams will be docked in Alexandria in early June, the statement said, adding that the delivery of the trams would be completed by the…
DetailsUkraine’s railways operator, the state-run JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, tripled investment in the first quarter of 2018, to UAH 3.869 billion ($147.5 million). “Capital investment of Ukrzaliznytsia was estimated at UAH 3.869 billion in the first quarter of 2018. The major part of funds, that is UAH 2.43 billion, accounting for almost 63%, was spent on the…
DetailsThe first quarter sales revenue of the Estonian state-owned energy group Eesti Energia totaled EUR 228.6 million, marking an increase of 6.2% on year, while net profits declined by 16.1%, to EUR 40.5 million. The revenues of most business segments of Eesti Energia grew in the first quarter on the back of higher electricity and…
DetailsCompared to March 2017, the total retail trade turnover rose by 6.5% in March 2018. Turnover of retail trade in food products has increased by 6.8%, turnover of retail trade in non-food products by 6%, and turnover of retail sale of automotive fuel by 7.3%. Compared to March of the previous year, the most significant…
DetailsOne of the peasant enterprises of Kyzylorda region plans to sow Iranian Torem Hoshemi rice variety on 500 ha. Last year it sowed a trial of Iranian rice on 70 hectares and got a good harvest, thus, gaining an opportunity to export its products to Iran. The local experts analyzed the mineral content of the…
DetailsThe volume of public and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2018 increased by $1.06 billion in dollar terms, or by 1.4%, to $77.37 billion as of March 31. In hryvnia equivalent, public debt over the said period decreased by UAH 88.09 billion, or by 4.1%, to UAH 2.054 trillion, according to…
DetailsUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered to start the large-scale production of Ukraine’s brand new Vilkha (Alder) missile system in 2018. “The Ukrainian army will get high-precision weapons. I attended the final testing of our Vilkha missile complex,” he wrote on Facebook on April 25. “Why is it so important? Not only because the Ukrainian…
DetailsThe Association of Beekeepers of Azerbaijan will send an appeal to the Agriculture Ministry, according to the president of the association Badraddin Khasratov. The goal is to obtain organic certification for Azerbaijani honey. “The ministry should apply to the Cabinet of Ministers for this. After the receipt of the certificate of organic product, the entry…
DetailsKyrgyzstan will export beef and mutton to China, the Director of the State Inspection for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Safety, Kalysbek Zhumakanov, declared on April 26. According to him, Kyrgyzstan has signed four protocols with China for the export of meat. “We will also export products from beef, lamb, chicken,” Kalysbek Zhumakanov told. He stressed that…
DetailsTajikistan has called on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank (EBRD) to participate in construction of the Rogun hydroelectric power plant (HPP). The request has reportedly been made during a meeting of Jamoliddin Nouraliyev, First Deputy Head of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), with Jurgen Rigterink, First Vice-President of the European Bank…
DetailsUkraine is working on the signing of a number of international contracts in the aerospace sector, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Yuriy Brovchenko, who heads the Ukrainian delegation at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show, declared. “We are reaching the finish line in terms of signing some contracts, procedures for joining the…
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