The Polish Agriculture Ministry plans to propose charging 8% VAT on Ukrainian vegetable oil and capping sugar imports from Ukraine to Poland, Polish Deputy Agriculture Minister Michal Kolodziejczak said in an interview with TVP Info. Poland’s Agriculture Ministry is analyzing data, including what amount of frozen raspberries was delivered from Ukraine and Poland this year, … Read more
Warsaw and Kyiv are getting ready to begin technical negotiations on export licenses for Ukrainian agricultural produce entering Poland, public broadcaster Polskie Radio 24 reported on Jan. 23. The talks will begin in a few days and will hopefully put an end to the months-long trade dispute between the two countries, Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw … Read more
The Ukrainian businessman and the founder of the Concorde Capital investment company, Ihor Mazepa, was detained at the border, Concorde Capital announced on Jan. 18. Law enforcement officers also entered the company’s premises and are carrying out searches of the building and employees, the statement read. The announcement comes the same day as several media … Read more
The cost of transporting agricultural products rose substantially due to the blocking of checkpoints on the Romanian and Polish borders, the Agriculture Ministry reported on Telegram on Jan. 16. “Every day of vehicle downtime costs money, so transportation prices are rising by 15-20%,” Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Markiyan Dmytrasevych said. Additionally, the blockades were … Read more
Nearly 3,300 trucks are stranded at the Poland-Ukraine border, with traffic blockades persisting at four crossing points, said Border Guard Service spokesperson Andriy Demchenko. The longest queues of about 1,200 and 850 trucks are reported at the Shehyni and the Rava-Ruska checkpoints respectively. “There are slightly smaller queues on other routes [to the border crossings],” said Demchenko. … Read more
The Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe, due to the blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border in November of this year, received a total loss or additionally spent $1.2 million, Oleksiy Yanovsky, director of procurement and logistics of the group, told Interfax-Ukraine in response to the corresponding request. “Under the blockade of the Black Sea ports, the main … Read more
Poland’s Pronar, a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery, is patenting a special machine for demining fields and construction sites with mass production expected to begin in 2024, Pronar’s Director of Trade and Marketing Radoslaw Bielecki revealed in a press release on Oct. 24. “A team of 150 engineers is working very closely with partners in … Read more
International logistics operator Treeden Group has launched the first stage of a cargo railway terminal in the Polish village of Wola Baranowska, located almost 200 km deep in Poland with access roads and broad gauge from Ukraine, Director of UAB Friendly Avia Support Oleksandr Lanetsky has said. “This allows us to connect the Ukrainian railway … Read more
Kyiv has lodged lawsuits with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary after the three countries introduced unilateral bans on imports of Ukrainian agricultural produce, Ukraine’s Economy Ministry said on Sept. 18. Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated that it is fundamentally important for Ukraine to prove that individual EU countries cannot ban … Read more
Ukraine and Poland have signed an agreement aimed at developing passenger and freight train services between the two nations, Yevhen Liashchenko, the head of Ukraine’s national railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia, has said in a press release issued by the Ukrainian rail operator on Aug. 28. Liashchenko said the agreement marks a significant milestone, representing the most … Read more