North Kazakhstan region plans to build a wind park with 25 wind generators, Arman Urazgulov, chief of the Department for Industrial and Innovative Development, said at a meeting on development of investment projects in the region. He noted that the project would be implemented in the territory of Ayirtau municipality. The total capacity of the…
DetailsVilnius Airport announced on December 23 a public tender for a new passenger departure terminal. The 14,400-square-metre building is set to double the number of passengers the airport is able to handle. The new building will sit adjacent to the old departures terminal, near the VIP terminal and a conference center that are currently being…
DetailsVentas osta, the state company created to perform the functions of Ventspils port, will provide a professional and depoliticized management of the port, says Latvia’s Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins. The prime minister said that after US sanctions, it was decided to implement the plan outlined in the government declaration in regards to entrusting Ventspils port’s…
DetailsThe gas price for the Ukrainian population and business will not grow this winter due to the agreement on the transit of Russian gas to Europe through the territory of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk wrote on his Facebook page. “The tariff for pumping Russian gas will be set not on bilateral negotiations,…
DetailsThe State Statistics Service of Ukraine has lowered the estimate of real GDP growth in the third quarter to 4.1% in annual terms from 4.2% announced earlier. The estimate of growth compared with the previous quarter, taking into account the seasonal factor, has deteriorated to 0.6% from 0.7%, according to the report. The agency says…
DetailsThe areas allocated for cotton cultivation will amount to 105,000 hectares in 2020, Azerbaijan’s Agriculture Minister Inam Karimov said. According to the new subsidization mechanism, that will come into force in 2020, some 220 manats ($129) will be issued to farmers for every hectare of sown cotton, and 100 manats ($58) for each ton of…
DetailsExports of Georgian tangerines amounted to 21,333 tons from the middle of October to December 19, up by 6.2% YoY, announced the Ministry of Agriculture. New export destination countries are Lithuania (120.9 tons), Slovenia (158.2 tons), Qatar (0.4 tons) and Singapore (0.1 tons). The leading export destination countries are Russia – 13,075.3 tons, Ukraine –…
DetailsCompared to October, the level of producer prices in Latvian industry dropped by 0.1% in November. The level of prices of products sold on the domestic market dropped by 0.5%, however prices of exported products increased by 0.3%. The level of prices both of products exported to euro area countries and of products exported to…
DetailsOn December 20 the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) put into circulation new UAH 50 banknotes, as well as UAH 5 coins that would gradually replace the relevant paper banknotes, the press service of the central bank wrote on its official Facebook page. “First of all, the National Bank intends to put into circulation 5…
DetailsState Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service said Ukraine in January-September boosted snail exports to the European Union member states to 248 tons, or 2.5-fold from the figure reported for the whole of 2018. “Exports of Ukrainian snails to the EU member states have been on the rise over the recent period. Some 248 tons…
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