The European Union has stated its willingness to promote fast introduction of autonomous trade preferences provided for the Ukrainian government. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this during a joint press conference with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker following the Ukraine-EU Summit, the president’s press service…
DetailsHead of Ukroboronprom State Concern Roman Romanov has stated that currently only 56 out of the 105 enterprises in the group structure are profitable. He noted plans to liquidate six companies in the holding. “There are 105 enterprises within the scope of the concern’s responsibility, of which, according to the draft resolution of the Cabinet…
DetailsKazakhstan started the new flour season of 2016/2017 with brisk exports. 177 KMT of flour was supplied to foreign markets in September, up by 18.6% YoY (149.2 KMT in September 2015). In addition, the September export volume is the largest for this month since 2010. The top importers of Kazakh flour remain the same neighboring…
DetailsAccording to the Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in October the production volumes of vegetable oils reached the record figures – 33.6 thousand tons. During two months of 2016/2017 MY the figure exceeded the production of vegetable oils in the same period last season by 30%. A significant increase in the production…
DetailsAn auction to sell Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) aroused competition among investors. Dialog is being held about the privatization of Odessa Port-Side Plant, Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Ihor Bilous said. “We held a good auction to sell Myhia HPP. We broke a record putting it up for 10 million UAH and…
Details$1.1 billion have been invested in Azerbaijan’s economy through investment tenders, Rafig Jalilov, deputy chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Property Issues, said. Volume of the domestic production rose by 1.5 billion manats thanks to these investments, according to him. Around 47,000 industry, trade, transportation and other state facilities, as well as non-residential facilities and…
DetailsPlans have been made to build a large waste recycling plant at the border of Smolevichi district and Borisov district. The enterprise will utilize a complete production cycle, Nikolai Svirsky, Head of the Beautification and Secondary Material Resources Department of the state enterprise Minsk Region Utilities, reported. As much as 65 million euro in foreign…
DetailsOn November 14-20, it was cooler than usual and insignificant precipitation was registered. The average weekly air temperature in the country was +1.1-3.7 degrees C, or 1.0-1.5 C below normal. Minimum air temperatures reached 6 degrees C below zero. Almost no precipitation was observed during the week, just at most 1-3 mm (5-35% of normal)…
DetailsInternational British procurement agency Crown Agents plans to purchase drugs and medical products from funds of the national budget of Ukraine for 2016 by March next year, Crown Agents senior procurement consultant Christine Jackson has said. According to the terms outlined in the agreement Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and Crown Agents signed on October 27,…
DetailsThe export market of Kazakhstan saw growth of milling wheat prices last week. It was fueled by the following factors: reviving demand from key importers; consequent growth of Kazakh wheat exports by a third against 2015 early in the season; rising domestic prices for milling wheat in Kazakhstan against the background of volatility of the…
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