Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) cut cigarette shipments in Ukraine by 12.1% in 2017, to 19.356 billion cigarettes. According to an annual report of PMI published on Thursday that the total cigarette market in Ukraine in 2017 fell by 8.2%, to 67.1 billion, mainly due to the impact of price increases and an increase in … Read more
Astarta in the 2017/2018 marketing year (MY, September-August) reduced sugar production by 8%, to 463,000 tonnes compared to the previous MY, the company’s press service has reported. According to its information, Astarta plants processed about 3.1 million tonnes of sugar beets. The reduction of sugar production are due to a lower than planned sugar beet … Read more
Public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia seeks to create a separate operator to manage railway stations in its structure. “Another innovation: we have a large number of railway stations. All these facilities and its operations should be centrally managed. The lease, use of stations, public private partnership – we plan to carry out this only through Prozorro.Sales,” … Read more
State-owned enterprise Mariupol maritime Merchandise port (Donetsk region) handled 5.882 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, which is 15.5% less than in 2016. The enterprise’s press service reported that over the period the port saw over UAH 186 million in net profit. “Among the difficulties that the port had to cope with in 2017 was … Read more
Ukrzaliznytsia plans to finish construction of the new Beskydsky tunnel on May 25, 2018 and starts new large-scale infrastructure projects for over UAH 10 billion, Ukrzaliznytsia acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov has said. “We plan to finish the project, which was to be completed this autumn, earlier. The Beskydsky tunnel is to be opened on … Read more
The share of counterfeit products in the cement market of Ukraine in 2017 decreased to 8% from 21.5% in 2014, according to a press release from the Ukrcement association of cement producers, with reference to a study by GfK Ukraine. “According to data for 2017, the distribution of the packaged cement market between factory and … Read more
State-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport (Kyiv), the largest airport of the country, has introduced new discounts for airport charges. According to the document posted on the airport’s website, it is intended to increase competitiveness of the Boryspil airport, boost passenger flow and airport’s revenue, expand the flight network and attract new carriers to the airport, … Read more
Average wholesale market price of electricity on the wholesale market of Ukraine in 2017 grew by 2.9% or UAH 209.95 per MWh compared with 2016, from UAH 1,315.03 to UAH 1,353.27 per MWh. According to state-owned enterprise Energomarket, the average wholesale market price grew due to a rise in the average selling price of electricity … Read more
Solar Park Pidhorodnye LLC (Dnipro) has built and commissioned a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 16.012 MW in Vesele (Zaporizhia region), according to the government web portal. The projected volume of electricity production by the facility is 22.718 million kWh per year. Solar Park Pidhorodnye previously built two solar plants with a … Read more
The mobile communications operator Kyivstar will send UAH 2.212 billion to pay dividends for 2011, 2015 and 2016, including UAH 711.858 million for 2011, UAH 1.232 billion for 2015 and UAH 267.798 million for 2016, the company has reported in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market. The … Read more