Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has met with European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic and discussed natural gas pipeline projects OPAL, Nord Stream-2 and Turkish Stream, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a statement. Novak and Sefcovic also discussed Russia’s gas exports to Ukraine and the transit of gas through the country…
Nibulon is going to invest in Ukrainian river transport no less than $300 million, general director of Nibulon Andrey Vadatursky announced. Strategic plans of Nibulon in internal water transport include construction of 5 new river transshipping terminals and a further construction of transport ships for internal and mixed routes (in 2016 8 new ships will…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash has offered St Petersburg (Russia) its electric buses for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Belkommunmash Director General Vladimir Korol reported. “An agreement has been reached with St Petersburg on a trial operation of our electric buses. St Petersburg is interested in it, as the city is gearing up to…
Construction of Russia-led Turkish Stream gas pipeline will start in 2018, gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reported. “A start to the project implementation has been given. Under our plan, construction will begin in 2018”, he said. Russia and Turkey signed an agreement to build the pipeline, which would consist of two branches with a…
Ukrzaliznytsia in 2016 plans to repair 100 passenger cars and next year – 200 cars, making them modern with vacuum water closets, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said. “The standards will be changed. We will stop using feather pillows and blankets with dust. The European service will be introduced. It will meet hygiene standards. We…
On October 3-9, Ukraine exported 545.9 thousand tons of grains from the seaports against 1.02 million tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 312 thousand tons, barley – 155.6 thousand tons, and corn – 78.3 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
In January-September Commercial Sea Port Yuzhny handled 29,609,000 tons, down by 16.5% YoY, according to the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. In the reporting period, transshipment of liquid bulk cargo fell by 8.7% to 3.01 million tons including 252,000 tons of oil products (-13.2%), 739,000 tons of vegetable oil (+12.2%) and 2.01 million tons of chemicals…