According to official data, by July 8, Russian farmers have threshed 2579 thousand ha (5.5%) of grains and legumes against 1777.5 thousand ha by the same date in 2015. 11221.5 KMT was harvested with average yield 4.35 MT/ha (in 2015 – 6698.4 KMT with 3.77 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 1670.3 thousand ha (6.1%), up…
DetailsOn July 11, the seventh tanker of Project RST54, Balt-Flot 6, built by Okskaya shipyard (Hull No 5407), was put into operation, says the shipyard. It is the sixth ship of Project RST54 built by Okskaya Shipyard for Balt Flot Tanker (BFT, Saint-Petersburg), says the Project designer Marine Engineering Bureau. Krasnoye Sormovo Okskaya shipyard and…
DetailsUpon completion of the modernization and sea trials, M/V Mikhail Sveltov of Project Q-65 has left for her maiden voyage to the Lena Pillars park, Unesco World Heritage Site in Yakutia, says press center of Marine Technics which developed the modernization project. The joint work with Lena United River Shipping Company on replacement of the…
DetailsIn January-June Kyivsky cardboard paper mill, a leader in Ukraine’s pulp and paper industry in terms of production and sales, produced 2.02 billion UAH worth of products, up by 15.7% YoY. According to the UkrPapir association, the mill saw a rise in production of corrugated cardboard packaging and production of base paper in kind in…
DetailsCrops harvesting started in Baydibek District of South Kazakhstan region. Total planted area reaches 31.824 thousand ha. 6.6 KMT of wheat have been already harvested from 3.54 thousand ha of planted area with average yields at 1.86 MT/ha. Productivity is quite high in the region. Average wheat yields reached 1.14-1.15 MT/ha in the country. The…
DetailsUkraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has held a meeting with the leadership of the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the direction of deepening cooperation in the energy sector. “The energy sector reform is now one of the priorities for the government. The tasks on the agenda are as follows: to open access to the energy…
DetailsThe flag of the Russian Federation has been raised onboard the TSHD Severnaya Dvina built to the order of FSUE Rosmorport, says the company. During the flag hoisting ceremony Rosmorport and Damen Shipyards Group signed the acceptance/delivery certificate. The event was attended by Executive Director of FSUE Rosmorport Andrei Lavrishchev, Arkhangelsk Region officials, representatives of…
DetailsThe sum of a transaction on the acquisition of a controlling stake in Naftogazvydobuvannia significantly exceeds a figure of $180 million voiced by the ex-chairman of the company Oleh Seminsky, the press service of DTEK reported. At the same time, the energy holding said they did not have the right to operate exact figures, because,…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers endorsed the concept of the Energy Efficiency Fund to be created. “Setting up the Energy Efficiency Fund will allow making very simple things, first of all, improve the efficiency of energy consumption. We have about 100,000 multi-apartment buildings, 7.5 million private households. We don’t need to do pilot projects but broad…
DetailsThe owner and president of DCH Group Oleksandr Yaroslavsky who holds a controlling stake in Kharkiv Tractor Plant seeks to invest around 200 million UAH in the enterprise. “The plant could be restored within six months”, he said. He sees the plant producing tractors, and if the company receives an order from the state –…
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